Disqus Comment System < 2.76 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2014-08-12 00:00

Nik Cubrilovic

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 2.76

Affected PluginDisqus Comment System

Affected Version< 2.76

CVSS5.4Medium

CVECVE-2014-5347

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Vulnerability Overview

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Disqus Comment System plugin before 2.76 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the (1) disqus_replace, (2) disqus_public_key, or (3) disqus_secret_key parameter to wp-admin/edit-comments.php in manage.php or that (4) reset or (5) delete plugin options via the reset parameter to wp-admin/edit-comments.php.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.76, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)) The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-5347 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/3ec2f684-fa04-4201-a826-1eed328821de

CVSS Vector

5.4

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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