CVE-2013-7233 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the retrospam component in wp-admin/options-discussion.php in WordPress 2.0.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that move comments to the moderation list

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Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the retrospam component in wp-admin/options-discussion.php in WordPress 2.0.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that move comments to the moderation list

Published Dec 30, 2013

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 3.84%

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the retrospam component in wp-admin/options-discussion.php in WordPress 2.0.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that move comments to the moderation list.

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

3.84% 0.03840

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.03840

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (13 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	3.84% (0.03840)	89.79th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	3.84% (0.03840)	88.72th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	0.55% (0.00550)	65.31th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	1.91% (0.01906)	72.27th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	0.41% (0.00413)	59.42th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.16% (0.00158)	53.55th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 15, 2024	0.11% (0.00112)	43.41th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.10% (0.00102)	40.44th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.15% (0.00155)	50.02th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	7.03% (0.07032)	92.26th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Jun 12, 2022	7.03% (0.07032)	91.65th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	7.58% (0.07584)	92.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	7.58% (0.07584)	81.17th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-352

CSRF

References (2)

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Dec/145
mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://www.osvdb.org/101184
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB

Link	Providers	Tags
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Dec/145		mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
http://www.osvdb.org/101184		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 30, 2013

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Dec 29, 2013

Link CVE-2013-7233

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2013-7233

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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