Subscribe To Comments Reloaded <= 140129 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Cross-Site Scripting

2014-02-18 00:00

Mallory Adams

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 140219

Affected PluginSubscribe To Comments Reloaded

Affected Version<= 140129

CVSS8.8High

CVECVE-2014-2274

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Vulnerability Overview

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Subscribe To Comments Reloaded plugin before 140219 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a request to the subscribe-to-comments-reloaded/options/index.php page to wp-admin/admin.php.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 140219, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-79 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')) The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2274 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/014dcf08-1968-4a3f-a772-2248e65dfb07

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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