CVE-2012-4448
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.8
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 3.5.1+dfsg-2 |
| sid | Fixed | 3.5.1+dfsg-2 |
| forky | Fixed | 3.5.1+dfsg-2 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 3.5.1+dfsg-2 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 3.5.1+dfsg-2 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress | wordpress | 3.4.2 | |
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/15
- http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/116785/WordPress-3.4.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50715
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436198
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860261
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-4448
CWEs
CWE-352
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.