{"id":11680,"date":"2022-01-19T17:23:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T22:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=11680"},"modified":"2022-01-19T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T22:24:00","slug":"vulnerability-in-email-template-designer-wordpress-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/vulnerability-in-email-template-designer-wordpress-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Vulnerability in Email Template Designer \u2013 WP HTML Mail WordPress Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team disclosed an unauthenticated XSS vulnerability in the Email Template Designer \u2013 WP HTML Mail <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/wordpress\">WordPress<\/a> plugin (<a href=\"https:\/\/cve.mitre.org\/cgi-bin\/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-0218\">CVE-2022-0218<\/a>). The plugin is installed on over 20,000 sites making the risk quite significant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-html-mail\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WordPress Email Template Designer \u2013 WP HTML Mail<\/a> is a WordPress plugin that is used to create custom-designed WordPress emails for <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/woocommerce\">WooCommerce<\/a> and Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) transactional emails, contact form notifications, WordPress core emails, Ninja Forms, BuddyPress, and many more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Wordfence, the flaw makes it possible for an unauthenticated attacker to inject malicious <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/javascript\">JavaScript<\/a> code into a vulnerable WordPress site. This code would then execute whenever a site administrator accessed the template editor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, this vulnerability also allows the attacker to modify the email template to contain arbitrary data that could be used to perform a phishing attack against anyone who received emails from the compromised site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exploit makes use of a vulnerability found in the plugin feature that registers two REST-API routes which are used to retrieve email template settings and update email template settings for unauthenticated users to access these endpoints.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full disclosure details were shared with the developer, Codemiq, on January 10, 2022, with a patch to the compromised WordPress <a href=\"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/plugins\">plugin<\/a> released on January 13, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recommended minimum version for Email Template Designer \u2013 WP HTML Mail WordPress plugin is now version 3.1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find more details about the Vulnerability in the Email Template Designer \u2013 WP HTML Mail WordPress plugin from this Wordfence including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordfence.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/unauthenticated-xss-vulnerability-patched-in-html-email-template-designer-plugin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full details<\/a> about the insecure code.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wordfence Threat Intelligence team disclosed an unauthenticated XSS vulnerability in the Email Template Designer \u2013 WP HTML Mail WordPress plugin (CVE-2022-0218). 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