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CVE-2024-1698

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Vulnerability Overview

CVE Name

CVE-2024-1698

Severity

9.8

Critical

CVE Description

The NotificationX – Best FOMO, Social Proof, WooCommerce Sales Popup & Notification Bar Plugin With Elementor plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to SQL Injection via the 'type' parameter in all versions up to, and including, 2.8.2 due to insufficient escaping...

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Latest Patch info

There is no patch available at the moment, but you can use our script.

Patch Name

Date

Script

Script Type

Remediation script

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Running the remediation script To fix the issue, we copy our remediation script to the server running our application and execute it: root@1a4e99c1eef8:/var/www/html# bash /tmp/remediation.sh Installing NotificationX – Best FOMO, Social Proof, WooCommerce Sales Popup & Notification Bar Plugin With Elementor (2.8.3) Downloading installation package from https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/notificationx.2.8.3.zip... Using cached file '/root/.wp-cli/cache/plugin/notificationx-2.8.3.zip'... Unpacking the package... Installing the plugin... Removing the old version of the plugin... Plugin updated successfully. Success: Installed 1 of 1 plugins. [+] Instance successfully patched and protected from CVE-2024-1698! root@1a4e99c1eef8:/var/www/html# Notice the last output line indicates that the instance has successfully been patched and protected against CVE-2024-1698. Verifying the remediation Let's verify if the remediation script did worked as intended by: Checking the NotificationX plugin version. Sending the SQLi payload to confirm that it doesn't works now (after the remediation script has executed successfully). Notice the version for NotificationX plugin has indeed been updated to 2.8.3: kali@kali:~/vicarious/cve-2024-1698$ curl -s http://localhost/wp-content/plugins/notificationx/README.txt | grep "Stable tag" Stable tag: 2.8.3 And the SQLi payload isn't working now: kali@kali:~/vicarious/cve-2024-1698$ time curl http://localhost/wp-json/notificationx/v1/analytics -d 'nx_id=1337&type=clicks`=sleep(10)-- -' {"success":true} real 0.09s user 0.00s sys 0.02s cpu 21% kali@kali:~/vicarious/cve-2024-1698$ time curl http://localhost/wp-json/notificationx/v1/analytics -d 'nx_id=1337&type=clicks`=sleep(10)-- -' {"success":true} real 0.08s user 0.01s sys 0.01s cpu 25% Perfect! We have successfully protected our (test) asset from being exploited by unknown hackers our there in the wild :)

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#!/bin/bash

curl -s -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]
then
	echo "Failed to download WP CLI.. Try installing wp-cli again!"
	rm -f wp-cli.phar
	exit -1
fi

php wp-cli.phar --info >/dev/null
if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]
then
	echo "Failed to properly download WP CLI.. Try installing wp-cli again!"
	rm -f wp-cli.phar
	exit -2
fi

chmod +x wp-cli.phar

./wp-cli.phar plugin update notificationx --version=2.8.3 --allow-root
if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]
then
	echo "Failed to updation NotificationX.. Try again later!"
	rm -f wp-cli.phar
	exit -3
fi

# Uncomment to also automate the plugin activation.
# ./wp-cli.phar plugin activate notificationx --allow-root
# if [[ "$?" -ne "0" ]]
# then
#	echo "Failed to activate the NotificationX plugin.. Try again later#!"
#	rm wp-cli.phar
#	exit -4
# fi

curr_ver=$(curl -s http://localhost/wp-content/plugins/notificationx/README.txt | grep "Stable tag:" | cut -d: -f2 | tr -d ' ')

dpkg --compare-versions $curr_ver gt 2.8.2

if [[ "$?" -eq "0" ]]
then
	echo "[+] Instance successfully patched and protected from CVE-2024-1698!"
else
	echo "[-] Instance is yet to be patched for CVE-2024-1698."
fi

rm wp-cli.phar

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