Description

WordPress Plugin Comment Rating is prone to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. Exploiting this issue may allow a remote attacker to perform certain administrative actions and gain unauthorized access to the affected application. Other attacks are also possible. WordPress Plugin Comment Rating versions prior to 2.9.21 are vulnerable.

Remediation

Update to plugin version 2.9.21 or latest

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/42433/

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Severity

High

Classification

CWE-352 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update CSRF