6.4

CVE-2014-9031: wordpress Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 6.4v3.1MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2014-9031
Published 25-11-2014Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2014-9031 is a medium (CVSS 6.4) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in wordpress. EPSS estimates a 4.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.1% of scored vulnerabilities. Fixed in 3.7.5.

Overall risk
27/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.4/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (wordfence)
EPSS score
4.98%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3
DLA-236-1DSA-3085-1MGASA-2014-0493

Timeline

  1. 25-11-2014
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the wptexturize function in WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, and 3.9.x before 3.9.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted use of shortcode brackets in a text field, as demonstrated by a comment or a post.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

4.98%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

92%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 4.98% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
4.98%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wordpress2 products
  • wordpress< 3.7 (fixed in 3.7.5) | ≥ 3.7, ≤ 3.7.4 (fixed in 3.7.5) | ≥ 3.8, ≤ 3.8.4 (fixed in 3.7.5) | ≥ 3.9, ≤ 3.9.2 (fixed in 3.7.5) | 4.0 (fixed in 3.7.5)
  • wordpressEOL≤ 3.7.4 | 3.8 | 3.8.1 | 3.8.2 | 3.8.3 | 3.8.4 | 3.9 | 3.9.1 | 3.9.2
Debian1 product
  • wordpress< 4.0.1+dfsg-1

2 vendors · 3 products

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