VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-4240

medium
Published 2014-04-02 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the HMS Testimonials plugin before 2.0.11 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) add new testimonials via the hms-testimonials-addnew page, (2) add new groups via the hms-testimonials-addnewgroup page, (3) change default settings via the hms-testimonials-settings page, (4) change advanced settings via the hms-testimonials-settings-advanced page, (5) change custom fields settings via the hms-testimonials-settings-fields page, or (6) change template settings via the hms-testimonials-templates-new page to wp-admin/admin.php.

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.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-27531 webapps php verified
RogueCoder · 2013-08-12

WordPress Plugin Hms Testimonials 2.0.10 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
hitmyserverhms_testimonials{"endIncluding":"2.0.10"}
hitmyserverhms_testimonials1.1
hitmyserverhms_testimonials1.2
hitmyserverhms_testimonials1.3
hitmyserverhms_testimonials1.4
hitmyserverhms_testimonials1.4.1
hitmyserverhms_testimonials1.5
hitmyserverhms_testimonials1.6
hitmyserverhms_testimonials1.6.1
hitmyserverhms_testimonials1.6.2
hitmyserverhms_testimonials1.7
hitmyserverhms_testimonials1.7.1
hitmyserverhms_testimonials2.0
hitmyserverhms_testimonials2.0.1
hitmyserverhms_testimonials2.0.2
hitmyserverhms_testimonials2.0.3
hitmyserverhms_testimonials2.0.4
hitmyserverhms_testimonials2.0.5
hitmyserverhms_testimonials2.0.6
hitmyserverhms_testimonials2.0.7
hitmyserverhms_testimonials2.0.8
hitmyserverhms_testimonials2.0.9

References

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.