What is CVE-2014-5183?

CVE-2014-5183 is a vulnerability in Simple Retail Menus Plugin Project Simple-Retail-Menus, classified under SQL Injection. Published 2014-08-06.

Is CVE-2014-5183 known to be exploited?

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

SQL Injection in Simple Retail Menus Plugin Project Simple-Retail-Menus

CVE-2014-5183

SQL injection vulnerability in includes/mode-edit.php in the Simple Retail Menus (simple-retail-menus) plugin before 4.1 for WordPress allows remote authenticated editors to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the targetmenu parameter in an edit action to wp-admin/admin.php.

Vulnerability class: SQL Injection

Published 2014-08-06 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.016 (74.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 75th percentile — 74.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.016 · newest: 0.016 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Simple Retail Menus Plugin Project Simple-Retail-Menus — versions 4.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

codevigilant.com/disclosure/wp-plugin-simple-retail-menus-a1-injection (Exploit)
plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset (Exploit, Patch)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-5183?: CVE-2014-5183 is a vulnerability in Simple Retail Menus Plugin Project Simple-Retail-Menus, classified under SQL Injection. Published 2014-08-06.
Is CVE-2014-5183 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.