CVE-2012-4448

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2012-09-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in wp-admin/index.php in WordPress 3.4.2 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that modify an RSS URL via a dashboard_incoming_links edit action.

Affected products

WordPress: 3.4.2

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/15
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/116785/WordPress-3.4.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50715
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436198
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860261
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/15
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/116785/WordPress-3.4.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/50715
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436198
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860261

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