CVE-2024-12636

Privacy Policy Generator, Terms & Conditions Generator WordPress Plugin : WP Legal Pages <= 3.2.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2024-12-24 00:00
Lucio Sá

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 3.2.8
Affected Plugin
Privacy Policy Generator, Terms & Conditions, GDPR, CCPA, Cookie Policy & Disclaimer Templates – WPLP Legal Pages
Affected Version
<= 3.2.7
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2024-12636
View all Privacy Policy Generator, Terms & Conditions, GDPR, CCPA, Cookie Policy & Disclaimer Templates – WPLP Legal Pages vulnerabilities

At a glance

CVE-2024-12636 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Privacy Policy Generator, Terms & Conditions, GDPR, CCPA, Cookie Policy & Disclaimer Templates WordPress plugin, affecting versions <= 3.2.7. It carries a CVSS score of 4.3 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 3.2.8; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed December 2024, reported by Lucio Sá.

Vulnerability Overview

The Privacy Policy Generator, Terms & Conditions Generator WordPress Plugin : WP Legal Pages plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 3.2.6. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the 'create_popup_delete_process' function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to delete popups via a forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

Technical Analysis

The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed, and no privileges on the target site.

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Privacy Policy Generator, Terms & Conditions, GDPR, CCPA, Cookie Policy & Disclaimer Templates <= 3.2.7 carries this weakness at create_popup_delete_process, and reaching it takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site request forgery abuses the fact that browsers attach a victim's cookies to any request, so a state-changing action that only checks who you are, not whether you meant to act, can be triggered from another site.

An attacker who gets a logged-in user to load a crafted page can perform that action as them, with the impact scaling to whatever the victim's role is allowed to do. For Privacy Policy Generator, Terms & Conditions, GDPR, CCPA, Cookie Policy & Disclaimer Templates the fix is 3.2.8: builds <= 3.2.7 are affected, anything from 3.2.8 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.2.8, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Privacy Policy Generator, Terms & Conditions, GDPR, CCPA, Cookie Policy & Disclaimer Templates: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Privacy Policy Generator, Terms & Conditions, GDPR, CCPA, Cookie Policy & Disclaimer Templates 3.2.8 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.

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External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-12636https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8da64b2f-8546-4276-9dbf-b60e885a0309https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-12636

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