CVE-2014-9174
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.3
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Google Analytics by Yoast (google-analytics-for-wordpress) plugin before 5.1.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "Manually enter your UA code" (manual_ua_code_field) field in the General Settings.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| yoast | google_analytics | {"endIncluding":"5.1.2"} | |
| yoast | google_analytics | 5.1 | |
| yoast | google_analytics | 5.1.1 | |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71330
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99053
- https://twitter.com/yoast/status/537569224307511296
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/changelog/
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7692
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71330
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99053
- https://twitter.com/yoast/status/537569224307511296
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/changelog/
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7692
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.