Twitter LiveBlog <= 1.1.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

2014-12-09 00:00

Manideep K

Strategic Overview

Status

Unpatched

Affected Plugintwitter-liveblog

Affected Version<= 1.1.2

CVSS6.3Medium

CVECVE-2014-9398

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Vulnerability Overview

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Twitter LiveBlog plugin 1.1.2 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the mashtlb_twitter_username parameter in the twitter-liveblog.php page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

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-2014-9398 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/c20e288e-492d-49ed-89cb-e1ee3e8c204e

CVSS Vector

6.3

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

Base

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

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