Fortinet Discovers WordPress Ultimate SMS Notifications Plugin CSV Injection Vulnerability

Summary

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a CVS Injection vulnerability in WordPress Ultimate SMS Notifications for WooCommerce Plugin.


Ultimate SMS Notifications for WooCommerce enables businesses to send messages, create mobile Marketing campaign and reach their customers in over 200 countries and regions all around the world.


The Ultimate SMS Notifications for WooCommerce plugin is vulnerable to CSV Injection via the 'Export Utility' functionality. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, such as a subscriber, to add untrusted input into billing information like their First Name that will embed into the exported CSV file triggered by an administrator and can result in code execution when these files are downloaded and opened on a local system with a vulnerable configuration.

Solutions

FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:

WordPress.Plugin.Ultimate.SMS.Notifications.CSV.Injection
Released Jan 17, 2020

Users should apply the solution provided by Homescript Team.

Timeline

Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Homescript Team on December 30, 2019

Homescript Team acknowledged the vulnerability on January 2, 2020

Homescript Team patched the vulnerability on December 18, 2020

Acknowledgement

This vulnerability was discovered by Vishnupriya Ilango & Zhouyuan Yang of Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs.

IPS Subscription

Fortinet customers who subscribe to Fortinet's intrusion prevention (IPS) service should be protected against this vulnerability with the appropriate configuration parameters in place. Fortinet's IPS service is one component of FortiGuard Subscription Services, which also offer comprehensive solutions such as antivirus, Web content filtering and antispam capabilities. These services enable protection against threats on both application and network layers. FortiGuard Services are continuously updated by FortiGuard Labs, which enables Fortinet to deliver a combination of multi-layered security intelligence and true zero-day protection from new and emerging threats. These updates are delivered to all FortiGate, FortiMail and FortiClient products. Fortinet strictly follows responsible disclosure guidelines to ensure optimum protection during a threat's lifecycle.