CVE-2008-0205

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in math-comment-spam-protection.php in the Math Comment Spam Protection 2.1 and earlier plugin for WordPress allow remote attackers to perform actions as administrators via the (1) mcsp_opt_msg_no_answer or (2) mcsp_opt_msg_wrong_answer parameter to wp-admin/options-general.php.

Affected products

WordPress Math Comment Spam Protection Plugin: through 2.1

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-January/059439.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3539
http://websecurity.com.ua/1576/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485786/100/0/threaded
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2008-January/059439.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3539
http://websecurity.com.ua/1576/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/485786/100/0/threaded

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