Disqus Comment System < 2.79 - Multiple Cross-Site Request Forgery

6.3
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2014-5346
CVSS 6.3 (Medium)
Publicly Published September 17, 2014
Last Updated December 5, 2022
Researcher Voxel@Night

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Disqus Comment System plugin before 2.79 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) activate or (2) deactivate the plugin via the active parameter to wp-admin/edit-comments.php, (3) import comments via an import_comments action, or (4) export comments via an export_comments action to wp-admin/index.php.

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Vulnerability Details for Disqus Comment System

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug disqus-comment-system (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Remediation Update to version 2.79, or a newer patched version
Affected Version
  • < 2.79
Patched Version
  • 2.79

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