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CVE-2013-4240

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-04-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the HMS Testimonials plugin before 2.0.11 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) add new testimonials via the hms-testimonials-addnew page, (2) add new groups via the hms-testimonials-addnewgroup page, (3) change default settings via the hms-testimonials-settings page, (4) change advanced settings via the hms-testimonials-settings-advanced page, (5) change custom fields settings via the hms-testimonials-settings-fields page, or (6) change template settings via the hms-testimonials-templates-new page to wp-admin/admin.php.

Affected products

• HitMyServer HMS Testimonials: through 2.0.10; 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.5 (+15)

References

• http://osvdb.org/96107
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Aug/96
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Aug/98
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/345
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/361
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/hms-testimonials/changelog
• http://osvdb.org/96107
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Aug/96
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Aug/98
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/345
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q3/361
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/hms-testimonials/changelog

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