Math Comment Spam Protection <= 2.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

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

CVE	CVE-2008-0205
CVSS	High (8.8)
Publicly Published	November 23, 2007
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Eugene Dokukin

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in math-comment-spam-protection.php in the Math Comment Spam Protection 2.1 and earlier plugin for WordPress allow remote attackers to perform actions as administrators via the (1) mcsp_opt_msg_no_answer or (2) mcsp_opt_msg_wrong_answer parameter to wp-admin/options-general.php.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Plugin
Software Slug	math-comment-spam-protection (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 2.1
Patched Version	2.2

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