CVE-2014-8724
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-12-19 15:00
Modified
2024-08-06 13:26
Severity ?
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the W3 Total Cache plugin before 0.9.4.1 for WordPress, when debug mode is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "Cache key" in the HTML-Comments, as demonstrated by the PATH_INFO to the default URI.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129626/W3-Total-Cache-0.9.4-Cross-Site-Scripting.htmlExploit
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534266/100/0/threaded
cve@mitre.orghttps://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.secuvera.de/advisories/secuvera-SA-2014-01.txtExploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129626/W3-Total-Cache-0.9.4-Cross-Site-Scripting.htmlExploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534266/100/0/threaded
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.secuvera.de/advisories/secuvera-SA-2014-01.txtExploit
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