Vigil@nce - WordPress Connection Information: Cross Site Request Forgery
June 2017 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery of WordPress
Connection Information, in order to force the victim to perform
operations.
Impacted products: Fedora, WordPress Core, WordPress Plugins not
comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 21/04/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Connection Information plugin can be installed on WordPress.
However, the origin of queries is not checked. They can for
example originate from an image included in an HTML document.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery of
WordPress Connection Information, in order to force the victim to
perform operations.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-Connection-Information-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery-22527