What is CVE-2014-4932?

CVE-2014-4932 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wordfence Security, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-08-28.

How severe is CVE-2014-4932?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Is CVE-2014-4932 known to be exploited?

2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

XSS in Wordfence Security

CVE-2014-4932

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Wordfence Security plugin before 5.1.5 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the val parameter to whois.php.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2018-08-28 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (66.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 67th percentile — 66.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.012 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Wordfence Security

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

www.wordfence.com/help/advanced/changelog/ (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)
techdefencelabs.com/security-advisories.html (Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-4932?: CVE-2014-4932 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Wordfence Security, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-08-28.
How severe is CVE-2014-4932?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2014-4932 known to be exploited?: 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.