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CVE-2012-4448 (GCVE-0-2012-4448)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-09-28 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:35

Summary

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in wp-admin/index.php in WordPress 3.4.2 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that modify an RSS URL via a dashboard_incoming_links edit action.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436198	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/50715	third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/116785/WordP…	x_refsource_MISC
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/15	mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860261	x_refsource_CONFIRM

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FKIE_CVE-2012-4448

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-09-28 21:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:45

Severity

Summary

References

URL	Tags
secalert@redhat.com	http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/15
secalert@redhat.com	http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/116785/WordPress-3.4.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html	Exploit
secalert@redhat.com	http://secunia.com/advisories/50715	Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436198	Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860261
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/15
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af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436198	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860261

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	wordpress	wordpress	3.4.2

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GHSA-RGFJ-6P67-WM4X

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 05:20 – Updated: 2022-05-17 05:20

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GSD-2012-4448

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:20

Details

Aliases

CVE-2012-4448

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CVE-2012-4448

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}

ubuntu-cve-2012-4448

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2012-09-28 21:55

Modified

2025-07-16 04:50

Summary

Details

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-4448	REPORT
	http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/0…	REPORT
	http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/116785/WordP…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4448	REPORT

JSON

To clipboard

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}

Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.

Action not permitted

CVE-2012-4448 (GCVE-0-2012-4448)

FKIE_CVE-2012-4448

GHSA-RGFJ-6P67-WM4X

GSD-2012-4448

ubuntu-cve-2012-4448

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Tags

Sightings

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