Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in wp-admin/index.php in WordPress 3.4.2 allows remote attackers to hijack the authenticati…

published 2012-09-28 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-4380

cvss: 6.8; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.1%; EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 67%
public exploits: 0; none known

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in wp-admin/index.php in WordPress 3.4.2 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that modify an RSS URL via a dashboard_incoming_links edit action.

Patch / fix

distros 1

wordpress Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.5.1+dfsg-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2012-4448

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-4448 updated 2025-11-21 cvss 3.5

wordpress: CSRF in the incoming links section of the dashboard

Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 67% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

packetstormsecurity.org http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/116785/WordPress-3.4.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

Technology feeds

WordPress rss critical rss

References

packetstormsecurity.org /files/116785/WordPress-3.4.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
exploit
bugs.gentoo.org /show_bug.cgi?id=436198
vendor-advisory
secunia.com /advisories/50715
third-party-advisory, vendor-advisory
openwall.com /lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/15
mailing-list
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=860261

Sources

CVE List CVE-2012-4448
NVD CVE-2012-4448

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Summary