CVE-2014-9414
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8
Description
The W3 Total Cache plugin before 0.9.4.1 for WordPress does not properly handle empty nonces, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the mobile site redirect URI via the mobile_groups[*][redirect] parameter and an empty _wpnonce parameter in the w3tc_mobile page to wp-admin/admin.php.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| boldgrid | w3_total_cache | {"endIncluding":"0.9.4"} | |
References
- http://mazinahmed1.blogspot.com/2014/12/w3-total-caches-w3totalfail.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129512/W3-Total-Cache-0.9.4-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/67
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61562
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534250/100/0/threaded
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99352
- https://github.com/wp-plugins/w3-total-cache/commit/9a1cc9f70558282e135eb3120d271448c75b28dd#diff-86a10b31ab115483fe8111bedac14d15
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/
- http://mazinahmed1.blogspot.com/2014/12/w3-total-caches-w3totalfail.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129512/W3-Total-Cache-0.9.4-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/67
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61562
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534250/100/0/threaded
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99352
- https://github.com/wp-plugins/w3-total-cache/commit/9a1cc9f70558282e135eb3120d271448c75b28dd#diff-86a10b31ab115483fe8111bedac14d15
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/
CWEs
CWE-352
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.