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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.

Published

2012-09-28T21:55:01.163

Last Modified

2025-04-11T00:51:21.963

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 6.8 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-352

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.4.2	Yes

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/15 ([email protected])
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/116785/WordPress-3.4.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html Exploit ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/50715 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436198 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860261 ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/15 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/116785/WordPress-3.4.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/50715 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436198 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860261 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)