FeedBurner FeedSmith Feedburner plugin cross-site request forgery
| feedburner-feedsmith-plugin-csrf (36940) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
FeedBurner FeedSmith is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery, caused by improper validation of user-supplied input by the Feedburner plugin. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted HTTP request to cause the victim to modify settings, hijack blog feeds and perform other arbitrary tasks, once the victim views the malicious request. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to perform cross-site scripting attacks, Web cache poisoning and other malicious activities.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 6.8 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | Medium |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 5.3 |
| Exploitability: | Proof-of-Concept |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Gain Access
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of FeedBurner FeedSmith (2.3 or later), available from the FeedBurner Web site. See References.
References:
- BlogSecurity Web site: Hijacking feeds with Feedburner Vulnerability.
- Feedburner Web site: FeedBurner FeedSmith.
- BID-25921: Google FeedBurner FeedSmith Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability
- CVE-2007-5229: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.2 plugin for WordPress allows remote attackers to change settings and hijack blog feeds via a request to wp-admin/options-general.php that submits parameter values to FeedBurner_FeedSmith_Plugin.php, as demonstrated by the (1) feedburner_url and (2) feedburner_comments_url parameters.
- SA27055: FeedBurner FeedSmith Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.2 and prior
Reported:
Oct 02, 2007
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