# CVE-2014-7957: Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Pods plugin before 2.5 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2015-01-15 · Updated: 2024-08-06

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Pods plugin before 2.5 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the toggled parameter in a toggle action in the pods-components page to wp-admin/admin.php, (2) delete a pod in a delete action in the pods page to wp-admin/admin.php, (3) reset pod settings and data via the pods_reset parameter in the pod-settings page to wp-admin/admin.php, (4) deactivate and reset pod data via the pods_reset_deactivate parameter in the pod-settings page to wp-admin/admin.php, (5) delete the admin role via the id parameter in a delete action in the pods-component-roles-and-capabilities page to wp-admin/admin.php, or (6) enable "roles and capabilities" in a toggle action in the pods-components page to wp-admin/admin.php.

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## References

- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71996
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/26
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/pods/changelog/
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129890/WordPress-Pods-2.4.3-CSRF-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534437/100/0/threaded

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