Blue Wrench Videos Widget: Cross-site request forgery
Blue Wrench Videos Widget is affected by cross-site request forgery. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Exploitation relies on a signed-in privileged user submitting an attacker-controlled request.
- Component
- Blue Wrench Videos Widget
- Plugin slug
blue-wrench-videos-widget- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Nov 19, 2013
This CVE was published Nov 19, 2013 and is one of 2 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Blue Wrench Videos Widget to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in bluewrench-video-widget.php in the Blue Wrench Video Widget plugin before 2.0.0 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that embed arbitrary URLs via the bw_url parameter in the bw-videos page to wp-admin/admin.php, as demonstrated by embedding a URL to a JavaScript file.
NVD vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P