WordPress plugin uk-cookie CSRF

2013.06.07
Credit: Henri Salo
Risk: Medium
Local: No
Remote: Yes
CVE: N/A
CWE: CWE-352

While reproducing CVE-2012-5856[1][2] I noticed there is CSRF security vulnerability in uk-cookie plugin and abusing it attacker can insert XSS to front page of WordPress installation. Version 1.1 is the latest and I did not test older versions. OSVDB item[3] should be updated. Plugin is currently disabled in WordPress plugin repository so vendor URL is currently 404. PoC: https://github.com/wpscanteam/wpscan/issues/184#issuecomment-19038566 Product: Uk Cookie Plugin for WordPress Vendor URL: http://wordpress.org/plugins/uk-cookie/ Vendor SVN: http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/uk-cookie/trunk/ Vulnerability Type: CWE-352 Vulnerable Versions: 1.1 and probably earlier Fixed Version: N/A Kurt, could you assign CVE-identifier for CSRF vulnerability, thanks. 1: http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2012/Nov/50 2: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-5856 3: http://osvdb.org/87561 Similar plugins are available: http://wordpress.org/plugins/uk-cookie-consent/

References:

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2012/Nov/50
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2012-5856
http://osvdb.org/87561


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