What is CVE-2014-5240?

CVE-2014-5240 is a vulnerability in Wordpress, classified under Cross-site Scripting. Published 2014-08-18.

Is CVE-2014-5240 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Wordpress

CVE-2014-5240

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/pluggable.php in WordPress before 3.9.2, when Multisite is enabled, allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, and obtain Super Admin privileges, via a crafted avatar URL.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.022 (80.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Wordpress — versions 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2
Debian Debian_linux — versions 7.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-5240?: CVE-2014-5240 is a vulnerability in Wordpress, classified under Cross-site Scripting. Published 2014-08-18.
Is CVE-2014-5240 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.