CVE-2014-9414 Cross-site request forgery in n/a
Remote attackers can hijack administrator sessions via CSRF to modify mobile site redirect settings in the W3 Total Cache WordPress plugin.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2014-9414?
CVE-2014-9414 is a medium-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 24 Dec 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-352
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9414?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Boldgrid W3 Total Cache.
How do I fix CVE-2014-9414?
No fix has been published for CVE-2014-9414 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2014-9414 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9414 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
- CVE-2024-12365 W3 Total Cache <= 2.8.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Missing Authorization to Server-Side Request Forgery
- CVE-2012-6077 Information disclosure in Total Cache
- CVE-2012-6078 Information disclosure in Total Cache
- CVE-2012-6079 Information disclosure in Total Cache
- CVE-2019-6715 Path traversal in n/a
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3gcq-r7g8-xfvf.