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Vigil@nce - WordPress Cerber Limit Login Attempts: Cross Site Request Forgery
October 2016 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery of WordPress
Cerber Limit Login Attempts, in order to force the victim to
perform operations.
Impacted products: WordPress Plugins not comprehensive.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 30/08/2016.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Cerber Limit Login Attempts 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 Cerber Limit Login Attempts, in order to force the
victim to perform operations.
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