CVE-2013-4227

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2020-02-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the persona_xsrf_token function in persona.module in the Mozilla Persona module 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.11 for Drupal allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of aribitrary users via a security token that is not a string data type.

Affected products

Mozilla Persona: from 7.x-1.0 before 7.x-1.11 — fixed in 7.x-1.11

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Persona 7.x-1.11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://drupalcode.org/project/persona.git/commitdiff/fe0f9bb
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/10/1
https://drupal.org/node/2058655
https://drupal.org/node/2059599
http://drupalcode.org/project/persona.git/commitdiff/fe0f9bb
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/08/10/1
https://drupal.org/node/2058655
https://drupal.org/node/2059599

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