CVE-2014-9414 (GCVE-0-2014-9414)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-12-24 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:40
VLAI?
Summary
The W3 Total Cache plugin before 0.9.4.1 for WordPress does not properly handle empty nonces, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the mobile site redirect URI via the mobile_groups[*][redirect] parameter and an empty _wpnonce parameter in the w3tc_mobile page to wp-admin/admin.php.
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