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CVE-2012-4448

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in wp-admin/index.php in WordPress 3.4.2 allows remote attackers to hija

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8 EPSS 0.00153
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Weakness Classification

CWE-352Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
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Affected Products & Versions

1
wordpressall versions
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Public Exploits & PoCs

1
pocpacketstormsecurity.org · WordPress-3.4.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.htmlpacketstormsecurity.org
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Scoring & Timeline

6.8
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secalert@redhat.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published to NVD28 Sep 2012 · 09:55 PM
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/15
http://secunia.com/advisories/50715Vendor Advisory
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436198Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860261
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