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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 2.1 Low

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2014-08-18

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-79

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Wordpress (Wordpress)

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/13/3
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29398
• https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/