CVE-2012-4448
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 1.1%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-352
- EPSS score
- 1.1% (67th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-4380)
- Published
- September 28, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-4380 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- wordpress / wordpress
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/09/25/15
- http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/116785/WordPress-3.4.2-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50715(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436198(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=860261
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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