Bug 436198 (CVE-2012-4448)

Summary:	www-apps/wordpress : CSRF Vulnerability (CVE-2012-4448)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	tampakrap, web-apps
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://secunia.com/advisories/50715/
Whiteboard:	~4 [noglsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2012-09-25 11:30:45 UTC

Description
A vulnerability has been discovered in WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.

The application allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity checks to verify the requests. This can be exploited to e.g. change the URL of the feed for the incoming links section on the dashboard if a logged-in administrative user visits a malicious web site.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 3.4.2. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution
No official solution is currently available.

Comment 1 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev

2012-09-30 20:10:19 UTC

CVE-2012-4448 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-4448):
  Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in wp-admin/index.php in
  WordPress 3.4.2 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of
  administrators for requests that modify an RSS URL via a
  dashboard_incoming_links edit action.

Comment 2 Samuel Damashek (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2013-12-22 18:36:25 UTC

Upstream has confirmed that this issue was fixed in =>www-apps/wordpress-3.5. Since there are no vulnerable versions in the portage tree, I'm closing this bug.