Vulnerability CVE-2014-9401
Published: 2014-12-31   Modified: 2015-01-01

Description:
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WP Limit Posts Automatically plugin 0.7 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the lpa_post_letters parameter in the wp-limit-posts-automatically.php page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
WordPress WP Limit Posts Automatically 0.7 CSRF / XSS
Manideep K
19.12.2014

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
Wp limit posts automatically project -> Wp limit posts automatically 

 References:
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129647/WordPress-WP-Limit-Posts-Automatically-0.7-CSRF-XSS.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99427
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