VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2014-9414

CVSS score6.8 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.36%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-12-24
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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 classification

  • CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Primary references