# CVE-2014-8948: Cross-site request forgery in n/a

> CSRF in iMember360 plugin allows hijacking admin sessions, potentially leading to arbitrary command execution when chained with other vulnerabilities.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 16 Nov 2014
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-j7f7-ccjp-pgj4

## What is CVE-2014-8948?

CVE-2014-8948 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Nov 2014. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the iMember360 plugin 3.8.012 through 3.9.001 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that with an unspecified impact via the i4w_trace parameter.  NOTE: this can be leveraged with CVE-2014-8948 to execute arbitrary commands.

Weakness: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8948?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Imember360 Imember360.

## How do I fix CVE-2014-8948?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-8948 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2014-8948 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8948 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code:

- WordPress Plugin iMember360 3.8.012 < 3.9.001 - Multiple Vulnerabilities (exploitdb)

## Other vulnerabilities in n/a

- [CVE-2014-8949](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-8949/): Command injection in n/a (medium 6.0)
- [CVE-2014-3848](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3848/): Information disclosure in n/a (medium 5.0)
- [CVE-2014-3849](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3849/): Missing authorization in n/a (medium 4.3)
- [CVE-2014-3842](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-3842/): Cross-site scripting in n/a (medium 4.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2014-8948 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2014-8948 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 16 Nov 2014. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8948 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-8948/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-8948/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8948
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8948
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-8948

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-8948/
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