CVE-2024-37508

Construction Landing Page <= 1.3.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2024-07-04 00:00
Dhabaleshwar Das

Strategic Overview

Status
Patched in 1.3.6
Affected Version
<= 1.3.5
CVSS
4.3Medium
Weakness type
CWE-352 · Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE
CVE-2024-37508
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At a glance

CVE-2024-37508 is a medium-severity Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Construction Landing Page WordPress theme, affecting versions <= 1.3.5. 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 1.3.6; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed July 2024, reported by Dhabaleshwar Das.

Vulnerability Overview

The Construction Landing Page theme for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.3.5. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on a function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to perform an unauthorized action 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)

Reaching this weakness in Construction Landing Page <= 1.3.5 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 Construction Landing Page the fix is 1.3.6: builds <= 1.3.5 are affected, anything from 1.3.6 onward is not.

Remediation

Update to version 1.3.6, or a newer patched version

How does WordSec protect against this?

The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to Construction Landing Page: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: Construction Landing Page 1.3.6 closes this, and updating the theme is the step that ends it.

  • Firewall
  • Alerts

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