FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.2 submits cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.2. Affected is some unknown functionality. The manipulation of the argument submits with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, and integrity. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was published 10/05/2007 (Website). The advisory is available at secunia.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2007-5229 since 10/05/2007. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. Technical details and a public exploit are known.

A public exploit has been developed by David Kierznowski in Javascript and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 1 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (36940) and Exploit-DB (30637).

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Class: Cross-site request forgery
CWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
ATT&CK: Unknown

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: David Kierznowski
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Advisory: secunia.com
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2007-5229 (🔍)
X-Force: 36940 - FeedBurner FeedSmith Feedburner plugin cross-site request forgery
SecurityFocus: 25921 - Google FeedBurner FeedSmith Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability
Secunia: 27055 - FeedBurner FeedSmith Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability, Less Critical

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

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Created: 03/16/2015 12:18
Updated: 09/09/2018 11:42
Changes: 03/16/2015 12:18 (55), 09/09/2018 11:42 (12)
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