CVE-2014-7151

NEX-Forms Lite – WordPress Contact Form builder < 3.4 - Cross-Site Scripting

2014-10-21 00:00

Strategic Overview

Status: Patched in 3.4
Affected Plugin: NEX-Forms Lite – WordPress Contact Form builder
Affected Version: < 3.4
CVSS: 6.1Medium
Weakness type: CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE: CVE-2014-7151

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At a glance

CVE-2014-7151 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the NEX-Forms Lite WordPress plugin, affecting versions < 3.4. It carries a CVSS score of 6.1 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). Exploitation requires no authentication. The issue is fixed in version 3.4; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed October 2014, reported by James Hooker.

Vulnerability Overview

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the x-forms-express plugin 2.1.0 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the form_fields parameter in a (1) do_edit or (2) do_insert action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

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

Reaching this weakness in NEX-Forms Lite < 3.4 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 NEX-Forms Lite the fix is 3.4: builds < 3.4 are affected, anything from 3.4 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 3.4, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to NEX-Forms Lite: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: NEX-Forms Lite 3.4 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-2014-7151 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/93badb2f-bb47-4ae6-a447-d8237cc9237f https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7151

CVSS Vector

6.1

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

Base

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

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