CVE-2012-4448

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in wp-admin/index.php in WordPress 3.4.2 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that modify an RSS URL via a dashboard_incoming_links edit action.

CVSS v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM

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CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

V2 Legend

Vector : AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Exploitability : 8.6 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity MEDIUM

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436198	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50715	Vendor Advisory
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/116785/WordPress-3.4.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html	Exploit
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/15
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860261

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2012-09-28 14:55

Updated : 2012-09-30 21:00

NVD link : CVE-2012-4448

Mitre link : CVE-2012-4448

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-352

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Products Affected

wordpress

wordpress

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