Flexible Checkout Fields for WooCommerce <= 2.3.1 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Plugin Settings Update

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CVE CVE-2020-36731
CVSS High (7.2)
Publicly Published February 26, 2020
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Jerome Bruandet
Description

The Flexible Checkout Fields for WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Unauthenticated Arbitrary Plugin Settings update, in addition to Stored Cross-Site Scripting in versions up to, and including, 2.3.1. This is due to missing authorization checks on the updateSettingsAction() function which is called via an admin_init hook, along with missing sanitization and escaping on the settings that are stored.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug flexible-checkout-fields (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.3.2
Patched Version
  • 2.3.2
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