CSRF in WordPress
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.
Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.011 (65.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 65th percentile — 65.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- WordPress — versions 3.4.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi (Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/50715 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- packetstormsecurity.org/files/116785/WordPress-3.4.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery… (Exploit)
- openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/15 (mailing-list)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi