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medium 6.8

CVE-2014-9099 json

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WhyDoWork AdSense plugin 1.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the aut…

published 2014-11-26 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-8925

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.7%
EPSS 2.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WhyDoWork AdSense plugin 1.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that have unspecified impact via a request to the whydowork_adsense page in wp-admin/options-general.php.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-39270)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

2.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-39270 WordPress Plugin WhyDoWork AdSense - 'options-general.php' Cross-Site Request Forgery (Option Manipulation) webapps, 2014-07-28
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127658/WordPress-WhyDoWork-AdSense-1.2-XSS-CSRF.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery
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References

Sources

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