PT-2012-5406 · WordPress · Wordpress

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2012-09-28 · Updated 2012-10-01 · CVE-2012-4448

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress version 3.4.2

Description A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issue allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that modify an RSS URL via a dashboard incoming links edit action. This occurs in the wp-admin/index.php file.

Recommendations For WordPress version 3.4.2, update to a newer version to mitigate the risk. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the wp-admin/index.php file and the dashboard incoming links edit action to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4448

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 13

• 🔥 http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/116785/WordPress-3.4.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html · Exploit
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436198 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4448 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-4448 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50715 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4448 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-4448 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-4448 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4448 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4448 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860261 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4448 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/15 · Note