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Vigil@nce - WordPress: Cross Site Request Forgery of WordPress Related Posts
May 2013 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery in WordPress
Related Posts of WordPress, in order to force the victim to
perform operations.
– Impacted products: WordPress
– Severity: 2/4
– Creation date: 14/05/2013
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The WordPress Related Posts plugin displays related posts.
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
WordPress Related Posts of WordPress, in order to force the victim
to perform operations.
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