full-disclosure - Re: Question about disclosure of WordPress plugin vulnerabilities

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Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:07:55 -0700
From: Andrew Farmer <andfarm@...il.com>
To: Miroslav Stampar <miroslav.stampar@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Question about disclosure of WordPress plugin
	vulnerabilities

On 2011-08-26, at 05:08, Miroslav Stampar wrote:
> Does anybody know what's the general opinion on disclosure of
> WordPress plugin vulnerabilities in these two sections:
<...>
> 2) admin ones (requires access to the restricted admin area)

If you need full admin access to run the exploit, you probably have enough access that you could get arbitrary code execution by installing a plugin, like:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-console/

So the "exploit" isn't really doing much at that point, unless it can be triggered remotely (e.g, CSRF).
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