CVE-2013-7233

Wordpress vulnerability

CVSS

6.8

EPSS

3.8%

EPSS pct

89th

Exploited

No known

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.

Affected vendor

Wordpress

Affected product

Wordpress

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Published

2013-12-30

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

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