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CVE-2014-9414

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.

Published

2014-12-24T18:59:11.073

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 6.8 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

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

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

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-352

Affected Vendors & Products

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

References

http://mazinahmed1.blogspot.com/2014/12/w3-total-caches-w3totalfail.html Exploit ([email protected])
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129512/W3-Total-Cache-0.9.4-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html Exploit ([email protected])
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/67 Exploit ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/61562 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534250/100/0/threaded ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99352 ([email protected])
https://github.com/wp-plugins/w3-total-cache/commit/9a1cc9f70558282e135eb3120d271448c75b28dd#diff-86a10b31ab115483fe8111bedac14d15 ([email protected])
https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/ Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://mazinahmed1.blogspot.com/2014/12/w3-total-caches-w3totalfail.html Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129512/W3-Total-Cache-0.9.4-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/67 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/61562 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534250/100/0/threaded (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99352 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/wp-plugins/w3-total-cache/commit/9a1cc9f70558282e135eb3120d271448c75b28dd#diff-86a10b31ab115483fe8111bedac14d15 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/ Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)