CVE-2014-2550

HIGH 8.8CVE-2014-2550 · Published 19/03/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-2550 is a HIGH (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability affecting disable comments project (disable comments).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.6%, higher than 75.5% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.0.4 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
disable comments project disable_comments	`< 1.0.4`	`1.0.4`

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Disable Comments plugin before 1.0.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that enable comments via a request to the disable_comments_settings page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/92219 · Third Party Advisory
security.dxw.com/advisories/csrf-in-disable-comments-1-0-3 · Exploit
wordpress.org/plugins/disable-comments · Product

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