SB2019092904 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Visualizer: Tables and Charts Manager for WordPress

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16932)

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the "/wp-json/visualizer/v1/upload-data" endpoint. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request to the affected API and trick the application to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.

2) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16931)

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. A remote attacker can permanently 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.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9892/
• https://gist.github.com/ndavison/144ae968df7ebe47667f76776464f7b9
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9893