CVE-2014-9414

CVSS V2 Medium 6.8 CVSS V3 None
Description
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2014-9414
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2014-12-24T18:59:11
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2018-10-09T19:55:07
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-352 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/352.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:w3edge:total_cache:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* 1 OR 0.9.4
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 6.8
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129512/W3-Total-Cache-0.9.4-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html Exploit
https://github.com/wp-plugins/w3-total-cache/commit/9a1cc9f70558282e135eb3120d271448c75b28dd#diff-86a10b31ab115483fe8111bedac14d15
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/67 Exploit
http://mazinahmed1.blogspot.com/2014/12/w3-total-caches-w3totalfail.html Exploit
http://secunia.com/advisories/61562
https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/ Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99352
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534250/100/0/threaded
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9414
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9414
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 18:34:33 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 02:51:14 2014-12-24T18:59Z 2014-12-24T18:59:11 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 02:51:14 2018-10-09T19:55:07 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 02:51:14 Modified Vulnerability Status updated