WordPress Core < 2.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Denial of Service

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-2013-7233
CVSS	High (8.8)
Publicly Published	December 17, 2013
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	Eugene Dokukin

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the retrospam component in wp-admin/options-discussion.php in WordPress 2.0.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that move comments to the moderation list.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Core
Software Slug	wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 2.0.11
Patched Version	2.1

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