CVE-2013-4240
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the HMS Testimonials plugin before 2.0.11 for WordPress allow remote…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 2.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the HMS Testimonials plugin before 2.0.11 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) add new testimonials via the hms-testimonials-addnew page, (2) add new groups via the hms-testimonials-addnewgroup page, (3) change default settings via the hms-testimonials-settings page, (4) change advanced settings via the hms-testimonials-settings-advanced page, (5) change custom fields settings via the hms-testimonials-settings-fields page, or (6) change template settings via the hms-testimonials-templates-new page to wp-admin/admin.php.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- WordPress Plugin Hms Testimonials 2.0.10 - Multiple Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 27531webapps, phppublished 12 Aug 2013Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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- 10 months later
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Published
- 10 years later
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Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 13% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- [oss-security] 20130812 Re: Re: CVE Request - HMS Testimonials 2.0.10 WP plugin (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20130810 CVE Request - HMS Testimonials 2.0.10 WP plugin (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 20130809 Update [RCA-201309-01] HMS Testimonials 2.0.10 WP plugin - Multiple vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- http://wordpress.org/plugins/hms-testimonials/changelog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20130808 [RCA-201308-01] HMS Testimonials 2.0.10 WP plugin - Multiple vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 96107 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2013-4144 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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