CVE-2013-6797

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-11-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in bluewrench-video-widget.php in the Blue Wrench Video Widget plugin before 2.0.0 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that embed arbitrary URLs via the bw_url parameter in the bw-videos page to wp-admin/admin.php, as demonstrated by embedding a URL to a JavaScript file.

Affected products

Sunil Nanda Blue Wrench Video Widget: through 1.0.5; 1.0.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4

References

http://osvdb.org/98922
http://osvdb.org/98923
http://securityundefined.com/wordpress-plugin-blue-wrench-video-widget-csrf-persistent-xss-0day-disclosure/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/blue-wrench-videos-widget/changelog
http://osvdb.org/98922
http://osvdb.org/98923
http://securityundefined.com/wordpress-plugin-blue-wrench-video-widget-csrf-persistent-xss-0day-disclosure/
http://wordpress.org/plugins/blue-wrench-videos-widget/changelog

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