Cross-site request forgery in WooCommerce Checkout For Digital Goods - CVE-2018-11633
Published: September 2, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU20561
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-11633
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: MULTIDOTS
Affected software:
WooCommerce Checkout For Digital Goods
WooCommerce Checkout For Digital Goods
Detailed vulnerability description
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 trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as be tricked into visiting a crafted URL created by an attacker (via spear phishing/social engineering), the attacker can change the plugin settings. The function woo_checkout_settings_page in the file class-woo-checkout-for-digital-goods-admin.php doesn't do any check against wp-admin/admin-post.php Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) and user capabilities.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-11633
Install update from vendor's website.