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Cross-Site Request Forgery in WordPress Press This function allows DoS


From: Summer of Pwnage <lists () securify nl>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 00:00:30 +0100

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Cross-Site Request Forgery in WordPress Press This function allows DoS
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Sipke Mellema, July 2016

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Abstract
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A Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability exists on the Press
This page of WordPress. This issue can be used to create a Denial of
Service (DoS) condition  if an authenticated administrator visits a
malicious URL.

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OVE ID
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OVE-20160718-0005

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Tested versions
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This issue was successfully tested on WordPress version 4.5.3.

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Fix
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This issue is resolved in WordPress version 4.7.3.

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Details
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https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/cross_site_request_forgery_in_wordpress_press_this_function_allows_dos.html

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