CVE-2014-9414
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-352
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Publication date:
24/12/2014
Last modified:
12/04/2025
Description
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.
Impact
Base Score 2.0
6.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:boldgrid:w3_total_cache:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | 0.9.4 (including) |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- http://mazinahmed1.blogspot.com/2014/12/w3-total-caches-w3totalfail.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129512/W3-Total-Cache-0.9.4-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/67
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61562
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534250/100/0/threaded
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99352
- https://github.com/wp-plugins/w3-total-cache/commit/9a1cc9f70558282e135eb3120d271448c75b28dd#diff-86a10b31ab115483fe8111bedac14d15
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/
- http://mazinahmed1.blogspot.com/2014/12/w3-total-caches-w3totalfail.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129512/W3-Total-Cache-0.9.4-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/67
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61562
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534250/100/0/threaded
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99352
- https://github.com/wp-plugins/w3-total-cache/commit/9a1cc9f70558282e135eb3120d271448c75b28dd#diff-86a10b31ab115483fe8111bedac14d15
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/



