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Vulnerability DatabaseCVE-2022-1407
CVE-2022-1407:
WordPress vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2022-1407 affects the VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS WordPress plugin versions before 1.5.8. The vulnerability was discovered and publicly disclosed on April 21, 2022 (WPScan).
Technical details
The vulnerability stems from two key issues: 1) The plugin lacks CSRF protection when adding tracking campaigns, and 2) The campaign fields are not properly escaped when outputting them in attributes. The vulnerability has been assigned a CVSS v3.1 base score of 6.5 (Medium) with the vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N (NVD).
Impact
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to make a logged-in administrator unknowingly add tracking campaigns containing XSS payloads through a CSRF attack. This could lead to stored cross-site scripting attacks being executed in the Statistics Tracking Settings section of the admin panel (WPScan).
Mitigation and workarounds
The vulnerability has been fixed in version 1.5.8 of the VikBooking Hotel Booking Engine & PMS plugin. Users are advised to update to this version or later to protect against this security issue (NVD).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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