Vulnerability CVE-2014-9399
Published: 2014-12-31   Modified: 2015-01-01

Description:
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the TweetScribe plugin 1.1 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the tweetscribe_username parameter in a save action in the tweetscribe.php page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
WordPress TweetScribe 1.1 CSRF / XSS
Manideep K
19.12.2014

Type:

CWE-352

 (Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF))

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Tweetscribe project -> Tweetscribe 

 References:
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129645/WordPress-TweetScribe-1.1-CSRF-XSS.html
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