CVE-2013-7233

medium
Published 2013-12-30 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
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 the retrospam component in wp-admin/options-discussion.php in WordPress 2.0.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that move comments to the moderation list.

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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-38924 webapps php verified
MustLive ยท 2013-12-17

WordPress Core 2.0.11 - '/wp-admin/options-discussion.php' Script Cross-Site Request Forgery

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

OS impact

debian Debian Affected 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Affected โ€”
sid Affected โ€”
forky Affected โ€”
bullseye Affected โ€”
bookworm Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
wordpress wordpresswordpress{"endIncluding":"2.0.11"}
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.4
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.6
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.7
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.8
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.9
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.10

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.