CVE-2014-9414 (GCVE-0-2014-9414)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-12-24 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:40
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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|---|---|
| https://github.com/wp-plugins/w3-total-cache/comm… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://mazinahmed1.blogspot.com/2014/12/w3-total-… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/ | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534250/100… | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ |
| http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/67 | mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC |
| http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129512/W3-To… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/61562 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
Date Public
2014-12-12 00:00
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