PT-2014-5714

CVE-2014-4163

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Published

2014-06-16

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Updated

2014-06-17

Description by

CVSS 2.0
6.8
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Featured Comments plugin version 1.2.1 for WordPress
Description The issue allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the buried or featured status of a comment. This is achieved via a request to "wp-admin/admin-ajax.php".
Recommendations For Featured Comments plugin version 1.2.1, update to a version that addresses the CSRF vulnerabilities to prevent authentication hijacking.
Exploitability
Exploit
Fix
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
Weakness enumeration
CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Related identifiers
CVE-2014-4163
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