Description
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.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- WordPress Plugin Google FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery EDB-30637 · webapps · Oct 4, 2007 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 20071003 Hijacking Feeds with Feedburner mailing-list
- feedburner-feedsmith-plugin-csrf(36940) vdb-entry
- 27055 third-party-advisory
- 30637 exploit
- http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/feedburner-feed-hijacking/
- 25921 vdb-entry
- http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/feedsmith-feedburner-vulnerability-fixed/
- http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/10/the_feedsmith_plugin_newly_for.php