Vulnerability CVE-2008-0205
Published: 2008-01-09   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in math-comment-spam-protection.php in the Math Comment Spam Protection 2.1 and earlier plugin for WordPress allow remote attackers to perform actions as administrators via the (1) mcsp_opt_msg_no_answer or (2) mcsp_opt_msg_wrong_answer parameter to wp-admin/options-general.php.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Multiple Vulnerabilities in Wordpress and other Web applications
3APA3A and MustL...
13.01.2008

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
Wordpress -> Math comment spam protection plugin 

 References:
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-January/059439.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3539
http://websecurity.com.ua/1576/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485786/100/0/threaded
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