CVE-2013-4227 Cross-site request forgery in Persona

High 8.8 Published Updated

Remote attackers can hijack user authentication in the Drupal Persona module via a CSRF vulnerability involving non-string security tokens.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2013-4227?

CVE-2013-4227 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Persona, published on 18 Feb 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the persona_xsrf_token function in persona.module in the Mozilla Persona module 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.11 for Drupal allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of aribitrary users via a security token that is not a string data type.

Weakness: CWE-352

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4227?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Persona.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4227?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-4227 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2013-4227 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4227 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-hxj7-9wvf-p983.

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