WordPress <= 4.0.0 is vulnerable to Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Patch priority: low
Resolve by 20 December, 2014 Low priority
8.8
High severity CVSS 3.1 score

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An unknown person discovered and reported this Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in WordPress. This could allow a malicious actor to force higher privileged users to execute unwanted actions under their current authentication. This vulnerability has been fixed in version 4.0.1.

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