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CVE-2014-8724

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.

Published

2014-12-19T15:59:11.173

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 4.3 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-79

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	boldgrid	w3_total_cache	≤ 0.9.4	Yes

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129626/W3-Total-Cache-0.9.4-Cross-Site-Scripting.html Exploit ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534266/100/0/threaded ([email protected])
https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/ Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.secuvera.de/advisories/secuvera-SA-2014-01.txt Exploit ([email protected])
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129626/W3-Total-Cache-0.9.4-Cross-Site-Scripting.html Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534266/100/0/threaded (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/ Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.secuvera.de/advisories/secuvera-SA-2014-01.txt Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)