CVE-2023-51673 in Stylish Price List Plugin
Summary
by MITRE • 01/05/2024
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in Designful Stylish Price List – Price Table Builder & QR Code Restaurant Menu.This issue affects Stylish Price List – Price Table Builder & QR Code Restaurant Menu: from n/a through 7.0.17.
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Analysis
by VulDB Data Team • 01/24/2024
The CVE-2023-51673 vulnerability represents a critical cross-site request forgery flaw within the Designful Stylish Price List plugin for WordPress, specifically impacting versions ranging from the initial release through 7.0.17. This vulnerability resides in the plugin's handling of user requests and authentication mechanisms, creating a significant security risk for WordPress sites that utilize this particular price table and menu building tool. The flaw allows attackers to execute unauthorized actions on behalf of authenticated users who visit malicious websites or have their browsers compromised, potentially leading to complete administrative control over affected sites.
The technical implementation of this CSRF vulnerability stems from the plugin's failure to properly validate and verify the origin of HTTP requests submitted through the price list and menu builder functionalities. When users interact with the plugin's administrative interfaces or front-end features, the system should implement robust anti-CSRF token mechanisms to ensure that requests originate from legitimate sources within the same domain. However, the absence of proper CSRF protection tokens or insufficient validation of existing tokens creates an exploitable condition where malicious actors can craft forged requests that appear to come from authenticated users. This weakness directly maps to CWE-352, which categorizes cross-site request forgery vulnerabilities as a critical threat to web application security, specifically addressing the lack of proper request origin verification and authentication validation.
The operational impact of this vulnerability extends beyond simple data manipulation, as it could enable attackers to perform administrative actions such as modifying price lists, altering menu configurations, adding or removing menu items, and potentially accessing sensitive customer data stored within the restaurant menu system. Given that the plugin is designed for restaurant menu management, unauthorized modifications could disrupt business operations, compromise customer information, and create financial losses through fraudulent pricing changes. The vulnerability affects not just individual users but entire restaurant establishments that rely on this plugin for their digital menu management systems. Attackers could exploit this weakness through various delivery methods including phishing campaigns, compromised websites, or social engineering tactics that trick authenticated users into visiting malicious sites that automatically submit forged requests to the vulnerable plugin endpoints.
Organizations utilizing this plugin should immediately implement mitigations including upgrading to version 7.0.18 or later, which contains the necessary security patches to address the CSRF vulnerability. Additionally, administrators should consider implementing additional protective measures such as network-level firewalls, web application firewalls, and strict access controls to limit exposure. The mitigation strategies should align with industry best practices outlined in the OWASP Top Ten and NIST cybersecurity frameworks, emphasizing the importance of input validation, proper session management, and comprehensive security testing. Security teams should also conduct thorough penetration testing and vulnerability assessments to identify any potential exploitation paths and ensure that all related systems and components are properly secured against similar threats. The vulnerability highlights the critical importance of maintaining up-to-date security measures and implementing robust security controls throughout the entire software development lifecycle to prevent such issues from occurring in the first place.