CVE-2015-1580 (redirection)

National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2015-1580

Original release date: 02/11/2015

Last revised: 02/12/2015

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Redirection Page plugin 1.2 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) change plugin settings or conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the (2) source or (3) redir parameter in an add action in the redirection-page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

Impact Subscore: 6.4

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type: Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service

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External Source: MISC

Name: http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130314/WordPress-Redirection-Page-1.2-CSRF-XSS.html

Vulnerable software and versions

+ Configuration 1
+ OR
* cpe:/a:redirection_project:redirection:1.2::~~~wordpress~~

Technical Details

  • Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) (CWE-352)

Change History 1 change record found – show changes

 

Quality Assurance – 2/12/2015 12:54:54 PM
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