WP Limit Posts Automatically <= 0.7 - Cross-Site Request Forgery leading to Cross-Site Scripting

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2014-9401
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published December 18, 2014
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Manideep K
Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WP Limit Posts Automatically plugin 0.7 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to in the wp-limit-posts-automatically.php page to wp-admin/options-general.php. The WP Limit Posts Automatically plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 0.7. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting attacks via the lpa_post_letters parameter. This is performed via forged request granted they can trick a site administrator into performing an action such as clicking on a link.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug wp-limit-posts-automatically (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? No
Affected Version
  • <= 0.7
Patched Version
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