# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.8 (`AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`)
- **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 available:** No
- **Published:** 24 Dec 2014
- **Updated:** 6 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3gcq-r7g8-xfvf

## 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 (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9414?

It affects 1 product.


Products: 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-12365/): W3 Total Cache <= 2.8.1 - Authenticated (Subscriber+) Missing Authorization to Server-Side Request Forgery (high 8.5)
- [CVE-2012-6077](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-6077/): Information disclosure in Total Cache (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2012-6078](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-6078/): Information disclosure in Total Cache (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2012-6079](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2012-6079/): Information disclosure in Total Cache (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2019-6715](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2019-6715/): Path traversal in n/a (high 7.5)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2014-9414 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9414 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-2014-9414/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-9414/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9414
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9414
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-9414

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