CVE-2012-4448

high

Description

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860261

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436198

http://secunia.com/advisories/50715

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/15

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-09-28

Updated: 2012-10-01

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High