CVE-2013-6797

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Published 2013-11-19 · Modified 2026-04-29

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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

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in bluewrench-video-widget.php in the Blue Wrench Video Widget plugin before 2.0.0 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that embed arbitrary URLs via the bw_url parameter in the bw-videos page to wp-admin/admin.php, as demonstrated by embedding a URL to a JavaScript file.

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-38844 webapps php verified

Haider Mahmood · 2013-11-23

WordPress Plugin Blue Wrench Video Widget - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
sunil_nanda	blue_wrench_video_widget	`{"endIncluding":"1.0.5"}`
sunil_nanda	blue_wrench_video_widget	`1.0.0`
sunil_nanda	blue_wrench_video_widget	`1.0.1`
sunil_nanda	blue_wrench_video_widget	`1.0.2`
sunil_nanda	blue_wrench_video_widget	`1.0.3`
sunil_nanda	blue_wrench_video_widget	`1.0.4`

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.