CVE-2014-8724

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-8724
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-12-19 15:59:00 UTC
Updated2023-05-26 17:46:00 UTC
DescriptionCross-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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Boldgrid W3 Total Cache All All All All
Application W3edge Total Cache All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
www.secuvera.de/advisories/secuvera-SA-2014-01.txt MISC www.secuvera.de Exploit
W3 Total Cache 0.9.4 Cross Site Scripting ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit
WordPress › W3 Total Cache « WordPress Plugins CONFIRM wordpress.org Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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