GD Star Rating <= 1.9.22 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2014-03-28 00:00

Tom Adams

Strategic Overview

Status

Unpatched

Affected PluginGD Star Rating

Affected Version<= 1.9.22

CVSS8.8High

CVECVE-2014-2838

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Vulnerability Overview

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the GD Star Rating plugin 1.9.22 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct (1) SQL injection attacks via the s parameter in the gd-star-rating-stats page to wp-admin/admin.php or (2) cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via unspecified vectors.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: No known patch available. Please review the vulnerability's details in depth and employ mitigations based on your organization's risk tolerance. It may be best to uninstall the affected software and find a replacement. --- 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-2014-2838 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/1432907e-bcd0-498f-9356-f269a252bc4b

CVSS Vector

8.8

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

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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