CVE-2014-5347

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-08-19 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Disqus Comment System plugin before 2.76 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the (1) disqus_replace, (2) disqus_public_key, or (3) disqus_secret_key parameter to wp-admin/edit-comments.php in manage.php or that (4) reset or (5) delete plugin options via the reset parameter to wp-admin/edit-comments.php.

Affected products

Disqus Comment System: through 2.75; 2.40, 2.41, 2.42, 2.43, 2.44, 2.45 (+25)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127847/WordPress-Disqus-2.7.5-CSRF-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127852/Disqus-2.7.5-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/35
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34336
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69205
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95288
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95289
https://gist.github.com/nikcub/cb5dc7a5464276c8424a
https://wordpress.org/plugins/disqus-comment-system/other_notes
https://www.nikcub.com/posts/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-disqus-wordpress-plugin
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127847/WordPress-Disqus-2.7.5-CSRF-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127852/Disqus-2.7.5-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery-Cross-Site-Scripting.html

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