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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.

Security Impact Summary

CVE-2014-5240 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 2 products from wordpress, from debian organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

Documented in 2014, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.

Published

2014-08-18T11:15:27.200

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 2.1 (LOW)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: HIGH
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-79

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	wordpress	wordpress	≤ 3.9.1	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.0	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.0.1	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.0.2	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.0.3	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.0.4	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.0.5	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.0.6	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.1	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.1.1	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.1.2	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.1.3	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.1.4	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.2	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.2	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.2.1	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.3	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.3.1	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.3.2	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.3.3	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.4.0	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.4.1	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.4.2	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.5.0	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.5.1	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.6	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.6.1	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.7	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.7.1	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.8	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.8.1	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	3.9.0	Yes
Operating System	debian	debian_linux	7.0	Yes

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/13/3 ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001 ([email protected])
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29398 ([email protected])
https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/ Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/13/3 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29398 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/ Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

SecUtils normalizes and enriches National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records by standardizing vendor and product identifiers, aggregating vulnerability metadata from both NVD and MITRE sources, and providing structured context for security teams. For wordpress's affected products, we extract Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classifications, CVSS severity metrics, and reference data to enable rapid vulnerability prioritization and asset correlation. This record contains no exploit code, proof-of-concept instructions, or attack methodologies—only defensive intelligence necessary for patch management, risk assessment, and security operations.