What is CVE-2014-7957?

CVE-2014-7957 is a vulnerability in Pods Foundation, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). Published 2015-01-15.

Is CVE-2014-7957 known to be exploited?

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

CSRF in Pods Foundation

CVE-2014-7957

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Pods plugin before 2.5 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the toggled parameter in a toggle action in the pods-components page to wp-admin/admin.php, (2) delete a pod in a delete action in the pods page to wp-admin/admin.php, (3) reset pod settings and data via the pods_reset parameter in the pod-settings page to wp-admin/admin.php, (4) deactivate and reset pod data via the pods_reset_deactivate parameter in the pod-settings page to wp-admin/admin.php, (5) delete the admin role via the id parameter in a delete action in the pods-component-roles-and-capabilities page to wp-admin/admin.php, or (6) enable "roles and capabilities" in a toggle action in the pods-components page to wp-admin/admin.php.

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

Published 2015-01-15 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.012 (66.1th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 66th percentile — 66.1% 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

Pods Foundation

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/71996 (vdb-entry)
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/26 (mailing-list, Exploit)
wordpress.org/plugins/pods/changelog/ (Patch)
packetstormsecurity.com/files/129890/WordPress-Pods-2.4.3-CSRF-Cross-Site-Scrip… (Exploit)
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534437/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-7957?: CVE-2014-7957 is a vulnerability in Pods Foundation, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). Published 2015-01-15.
Is CVE-2014-7957 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.