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WordPress Permalinks Migration Plugin Cross-Site Request Forgery
Secunia Advisory: SA28593
Release Date: 2008-01-24
Last Update: 2008-02-07
Popularity: 2,655 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Permalinks Migration 1.x (plugin for WordPress)

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CVE reference:CVE-2008-0508


Description:
g30rg3_x has discovered a vulnerability in the Permalinks Migration plugin for WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability is caused due to the application allowing users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity checks to verify the request. This can be exploited to e.g. conduct script insertion attacks against the PermalinksMigration page.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.0. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Do not browse untrusted websites while logged on to WordPress.

Provided and/or discovered by:
g30rg3_x

Changelog:
2008-02-07: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://packetstorm.linuxsecurity.com/0801-advisories/deans-xsrf.txt


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