CVE-2022-23988

WS Form LITE and WS Form Pro < 1.8.176 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting

2022-01-31 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 1.8.176
Affected Plugin: WS Form LITE – Drag & Drop Contact Form Builder
Affected Version: < 1.8.176
CVSS: 7.2High
Weakness type: CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE: CVE-2022-23988

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At a glance

CVE-2022-23988 is a high-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the WS Form LITE WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 1.8.176. It carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 1.8.176; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed January 2022, reported by Felipe Restrepo Rodriguez (pfelilpe).

Vulnerability Overview

The WS Form LITE and Pro WordPress plugins before 1.8.176 do not sanitise and escape submitted form data, allowing unauthenticated attacker to submit XSS payloads which will get executed when a privileged user will view the related submission

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, and no interaction from a victim user.

CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Reaching this weakness in WS Form LITE < 1.8.176 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.

Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For WS Form LITE the fix is 1.8.176: builds < 1.8.176 are affected, anything from 1.8.176 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.8.176, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to WS Form LITE: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: WS Form LITE 1.8.176 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-2022-23988 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c2990ed9-061e-4d35-aae0-99282a4f3737 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23988

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CVSS Vector

7.2

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeChanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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