Secunia Security Advisory - David Kierznowski has reported a vulnerability in FeedBurner FeedSmith, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site request forgery attacks.
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TITLE:
FeedBurner FeedSmith Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27055
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27055/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/15916/
DESCRIPTION:
David Kierznowski has reported a vulnerability in FeedBurner
FeedSmith, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct
cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability is caused due to the application allowing users to
perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any
validity checks to verify the request. This can be exploited to
change certain settings and e.g. hijack blog feeds.
The vulnerability is reported in version 2.2. Prior versions may also
be affected.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.3.
http://www.feedburner.com/fb/products/feedburner_feedsmith_plugin_2.3.zip
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
David Kierznowski
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/feedburner-feed-hijacking/
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