What is CVE-2015-9459?

CVE-2015-9459 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Seo Searchterms Tagging 2 Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-10-10.

How severe is CVE-2015-9459?

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

Is CVE-2015-9459 known to be exploited?

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

XSS in Seo Searchterms Tagging 2 Project

CVE-2015-9459

The searchterms-tagging-2 plugin through 1.535 for WordPress has XSS via the wp-admin/options-general.php count parameter.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2019-10-10 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (62.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 62nd percentile — 62.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Seo Searchterms Tagging 2 Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

Public proof-of-concept exploits

20142995/nuclei-templates

References

wordpress.org/plugins/searchterms-tagging-2/ (Third Party Advisory)
cinu.pl/research/wp-plugins/mail_d14e213879cd60e80e538bde21c0359b.html (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-9459?: CVE-2015-9459 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Seo Searchterms Tagging 2 Project, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2019-10-10.
How severe is CVE-2015-9459?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.
Is CVE-2015-9459 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.