CVE-2014-2550

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Disable Comments plugin before 1.0.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that enable comments via a request to the disable_comments_settings page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

CVSS v3.0 8.8 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM

8.8^/10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

6.8^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

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://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-comments/#developers	Product Third Party Advisory
https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrf-in-disable-comments-1-0-3/	Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92219	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

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Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:disable_comments:disable_comments_project:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

Information

Published : 2018-03-19 14:29

Updated : 2018-04-17 07:57

NVD link : CVE-2014-2550

Mitre link : CVE-2014-2550

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-352

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

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Products Affected

disable_comments

disable_comments_project

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