CVE-2013-7233

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-12-30 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the retrospam component in wp-admin/options-discussion.php in WordPress 2.0.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that move comments to the moderation list.

Affected products

WordPress: through 2.0.11; 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6 (+4)

References

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Dec/145
http://www.osvdb.org/101184
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Dec/145
http://www.osvdb.org/101184

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