CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-5196
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-08-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in improved-user-search-in-backend.php in the backend in the Improved user search in backend plugin before 1.2.5 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that insert XSS sequences via the iusib_meta_fields parameter.
Affected configurations
• improved user search in backend project improved user search in backend (<= 1.2.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60590 secunia.com
- http://wordpress.org/plugins/improved-user-search-in-backend/changelog Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrf-and-xss-in-improved-user-search-allow-execution-of-arbitrary-javascript-in-wordpress-admin-area/ Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60590 secunia.com
- http://wordpress.org/plugins/improved-user-search-in-backend/changelog Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrf-and-xss-in-improved-user-search-allow-execution-of-arbitrary-javascript-in-wordpress-admin-area/ Exploit