Twitter account disconnection via tokenless unlink request
Published May 15, 2024 · Updated Mar 25, 2025
Cross-site request forgery in Luke Lanchester HL Twitter through 2014.1.18 allows remote attackers to unlink a site's Twitter account. The admin.php settings action accepts a POST with action=unlink without a CSRF token check and clears the stored API tokens. Exploitation requires a logged-in administrator to open attacker-controlled HTML, and it disconnects Twitter integration without granting broader site access.
Summary
What happened
Cross-site request forgery in Luke Lanchester HL Twitter through 2014.1.18 allows remote attackers to unlink a site's Twitter account. The admin.php settings action accepts a POST with action=unlink without a CSRF token check and clears the stored API tokens. Exploitation requires a logged-in administrator to open attacker-controlled HTML, and it disconnects Twitter integration without granting broader site access.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-3631
- Published
- May 15, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 25, 2025
- Vendor
- Luke Lanchester
- Product
- HL Twitter
- Classifications
- CWE-352, T1204.002
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- May 15, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 25, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=2014.1.18
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- WPScan account-unlink CSRF proof of conceptproof of concept · demonstrated
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