Colibri WP <= 1.0.94 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Limited Plugin Installation
Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in 1.0.101
- Affected Theme
- Colibri WP
- Affected Version
<= 1.0.94- CVSS
- 4.3Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- CVE
CVE-2024-1360
At a glance
CVE-2024-1360 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Colibri WP WordPress theme, affecting versions <= 1.0.94. 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 1.0.101; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed February 2024, reported by Lucio Sá.
Vulnerability Overview
The Colibri WP theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in all versions up to, and including, 1.0.94. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on the colibriwp_install_plugin() function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to install recommended plugins 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)
Colibri WP <= 1.0.94 carries this weakness at colibriwp_install_plugin(), 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 Colibri WP the fix is 1.0.101: builds <= 1.0.94 are affected, anything from 1.0.101 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version 1.0.101, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Colibri WP: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Colibri WP 1.0.101 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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