Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2014-5240 First vendor Publication 2014-08-18
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2015-11-25

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 2.1 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity High
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication Requires single instance
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Detail

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/pluggable.php in WordPress before 3.9.2, when Multisite is enabled, allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, and obtain Super Admin privileges, via a crafted avatar URL.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-5240

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26282
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:26282
Title: DSA-3001-1 wordpress - security update
Description: Multiple security issues have been discovered in Wordpress, a web blogging tool, resulting in denial of service or information disclosure. More information can be found in the upstream advisory at <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/">https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/</a>.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-3001-1
CVE-2014-2053
CVE-2014-5204
CVE-2014-5205
CVE-2014-5240
 Version: 3
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 7.0
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD 7.0
 Product(s): wordpress
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 367
Os 1

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2015-03-26 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-56.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-9270.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-22 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2014-9264.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-12 Name : The remote web server contains a PHP application that is affected by multiple...
File : wordpress_3_9_2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2014-08-10 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
CONFIRM https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29398
https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/
DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001
MLIST http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/13/3

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