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medium 4.3

CVE-2014-6312 json

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Login Widget With Shortcode (login-sidebar-widget) plugin before 3.2.1 for WordPress…

published 2014-10-15 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-6196

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.2%
EPSS 4.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Login Widget With Shortcode (login-sidebar-widget) plugin before 3.2.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the custom_style_afo parameter on the login_widget_afo page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-34762)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

4.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-34762 WordPress Plugin Login Widget With ShortCode 3.1.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities webapps, 2014-09-25
  • seclists.org http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Sep/58 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • security.dxw.com https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrfxss-vulnerablity-in-login-widget-with-shortcode-allows-unauthenticated-attackers-to-do-anything-an-admin-can-do referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
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References

Sources

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