SB2019070815 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Visitors Traffic Real Time Statistics plugin for WordPress
Published: July 8, 2019 Updated: September 4, 2019
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 3 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-15831)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can craft an AJAX request, which lets blog administrators alter plugin settings.
This vulnerability leads to a Stored XSS and SQL Injection.
2) Stored cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: N/A)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data when displaying it in the admin backend. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website and access the whole DOM.
This vulnerability is a result of the CSRF described above.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
3) SQL injection (CVE-ID: N/A)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries in database.
The vulnerability exists due to the user input coming from the attacker is directly being passed to the "WPDB query()" method. A remote authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted request to the affected application and execute arbitrary SQL commands within the application database.
This vulnerability is a result of the CSRF described above.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to read, delete, modify data in database and gain complete control over the affected application.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.