SB2024110125 - Multiple vulnerabilities in SIP Reviews Shortcode for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress
Published: November 1, 2024
Breakdown by Severity
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- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Stored cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-6480)
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 in the "no_of_reviews" attribute in the woocommerce_reviews shortcode. A remote user can inject and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
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.
2) SQL injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-6479)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries in database.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in the "no_of_reviews" attribute in the woocommerce_reviews shortcode. A remote user can send a specially crafted request to the affected application and execute arbitrary SQL commands within the application database.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to read data in database.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.
References
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/43aa28ec-6553-4527-a1d1-eb4a58533c5d?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sip-reviews-shortcode-woocommerce/trunk/public/partials/plugin-reviews-shortcode-display.php
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sip-reviews-shortcode-woocommerce/trunk/public/partials/plugin-reviews-shortcode-display.php#L424
- https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/a920a77a-681a-4309-bce2-1f77c11c8b29?source=cve
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/sip-reviews-shortcode-woocommerce/trunk/public/partials/plugin-reviews-shortcode-display.php#L331