WordPress Featured Comments Plugin Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	67955
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:	CVE-2014-4163
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jun 10 2014 12:00AM
Updated:	Jun 18 2014 04:34PM
Credit:	Tom Adams
Vulnerable:
Not Vulnerable:

WordPress Featured Comments Plugin Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

Featured Comments plugin for WordPress is prone to a cross-site request-forgery vulnerability.

An attacker can exploit the cross-site request forgery issue to perform unauthorized actions in the context of a logged-in user of the affected application. This may aid in other attacks.

Featured Comments 1.2.1 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

WordPress Featured Comments Plugin Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

To exploit this issue an attacker must entice an unsuspecting victim to open a malicious URI.

The following proof of concept is available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/67955.html.txt

WordPress Featured Comments Plugin Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently, we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected].

WordPress Featured Comments Plugin Cross Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

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