Fortinet Discovers WordPress Plugin WooCommerce Store Exporter CSV Injection Vulnerability
Summary
Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs has discovered a CSV Injection vulnerability in the Wordpress Plugin - 'WooCommerce Store Exporter'.
The Store Exporter creates Product, Order, Category, Tag and User exports to suit any store requirements. The 'Quick Export' functionality helps to produce concise, ready to use Excel spreadsheets. The plugin has a commercial version available and has over 20,000+ active installations.
A CSV Injection vulnerability was discovered in WooCommerce - Store Exporter v 2.3.1. It allows a user with low level privileges to inject a command that will be included in the exported CSV file, leading to possible command/code execution.
Solutions
FortiGuard Labs released the following FortiGate IPS signature which covers this specific vulnerability:WordPress.WooCommerce.Store.Exporter.CSV.Injection
Released Jan 06, 2020
Update the plugin to the latest version (v2.4).
Timeline
Fortinet reported the vulnerability to Visser Labs on January 02, 2020.
Visser Labs confirmed the vulnerability on January 03, 2020.
Visser Labs patched the vulnerability on January 06, 2020.