PT-2018-4201 · WordPress · Disable Comments

Dxw · Published 2018-03-19 · Updated 2018-04-17 · CVE-2014-2550

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 Disable Comments plugin versions prior to 1.0.4 for WordPress

Description A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issue allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that enable comments via a request to the "disable comments settings" page to "wp-admin/options-general.php".

Recommendations For Disable Comments plugin versions prior to 1.0.4, update to version 1.0.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-2550

Affected Products

Disable Comments

References · 5

• 🔥 https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrf-in-disable-comments-1-0-3 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2550 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-comments/#developers · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92219 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-2550 · Note