CSRF in Sunil Nanda Blue Wrench Video Widget
CVE-2013-6797
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in bluewrench-video-widget.php in the Blue Wrench Video Widget plugin before 2.0.0 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that embed arbitrary URLs via the bw_url parameter in the bw-videos page to wp-admin/admin.php, as demonstrated by embedding a URL to a JavaScript file.
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: 0.029 (86.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 86th percentile — 86.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.029 · newest: 0.029 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Sunil Nanda Blue Wrench Video Widget — versions 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- wordpress.org/plugins/blue-wrench-videos-widget/changelog (Patch)
- osvdb.org/98923 (vdb-entry)
- osvdb.org/98922 (vdb-entry)
- securityundefined.com/wordpress-plugin-blue-wrench-video-widget-csrf-persistent… (Exploit)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2013-6797?
- CVE-2013-6797 is a vulnerability in Sunil Nanda Blue Wrench Video Widget, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). Published 2013-11-19.
- Is CVE-2013-6797 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.