CVE-2014-9414
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.
- EPSS
- 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 71% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-352
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- boldgrid:w3_total_cache
References
- 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