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Vigil@nce - WordPress Login Widget With Shortcode: Cross Site Request Forgery
October 2014 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery of WordPress
Login Widget With Shortcode, in order to force the victim to
perform operations.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins
Severity: 2/4
Creation date: 17/09/2014
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Login Widget With Shortcode plugin can be installed on
WordPress.
However, the origin of queries is not checked. They can for
example originate from an image included in an HTML document.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery of
WordPress Login Widget With Shortcode, in order to force the
victim to perform operations.
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