Charlie Eriksen

Charlie Eriksen is a security researcher credited with 34 disclosed vulnerabilities in the WordSec WordPress vulnerability database, ranked #171 of 3,515 contributors. Their disclosures were published between 2012 and 2014. The most productive year was 2013, with 22 findings.

Their research concentrates on Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), which accounts for 14 of their findings (41%). Other recurring categories include Cross-Site Scripting, PHP Remote File Inclusion. The average CVSS score across these disclosures is 7.8, peaking at 9.8. Severity breakdown: 11 critical and 12 high.

The most affected software includes Floating Social Media Links (2), Mingle Forum (2), WP Symposium (2), across 31 distinct plugins, themes and core versions in total.

33 of the 34 disclosed issues have a vendor fix, while 1 remain unpatched. The most severe finding, "WP Symposium <= 12.11 - SQL Injections", scores 9.8 out of 10.

201220132014
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Global Rank

#171

of 3,515 researchers

Vulns

34

Critical11
High12
Medium11
Low0
Affected Assets

31

31plugins
Avg CVSS

7.8

Average score of vulnerabilities

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