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Vigil@nce - WordPress: Cross Site Request Forgery of WP-PostViews
May 2013 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : http://vigilance.fr/offer
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery in
WP-PostViews of WordPress, in order to force the victim to perform
operations.
– Impacted products: WordPress
– Severity: 2/4
– Creation date: 13/05/2013
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The WP-PostViews plugin counts how many times a page has been
visited.
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 in
WP-PostViews of WordPress, in order to force the victim to perform
operations.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
http://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/WordPress-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery-of-WP-PostViews-12776
