CVE-2014-5240 — Vulnetix

CVE-2014-5240 PUBLISHED

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/pluggable.php in WordPress before 3.9.2, when Multisite is enabled, allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, and obtain Super Admin privileges, via a crafted avatar URL.

EPSS 0.63% · 70.8th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score

0.63%

70.8th percentile

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTS	wordpress	0, 3.6.1+dfsg-1, 3.7.1+dfsg-1

Exploit Intelligence

DSA-3001 (circl)
https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/ (circl)
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29398 (circl)
[oss-security] 20140813 Re: WordPress 3.9.2 release - needs CVE's (circl)

Timeline

Aug 18, 2014 CVE Published
Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
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References

https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-5240 third-party-advisory
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29398 third-party-advisory
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-5240 third-party-advisory

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