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CVE-2014-5240

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.
An official patch is available. Apply the patch as soon as possible.
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CVSS
0.0
ShadowTrackr
NO
CISA KEV
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NCSC.nl
Patch StatusOfficial Patch

Change Log
DateSourceChangesScore
2026-07-17PoCE: U→P0.0 → 0.0
2026-07-15cve.orginitial0.0
References: CVE.org · NVD · PoC

Affected Software
VendorProductVersion
debiandebian_linux7.0
wordpresswordpress≤ 3.9.1
wordpresswordpress3.0
wordpresswordpress3.0.1
wordpresswordpress3.0.2
wordpresswordpress3.0.3
wordpresswordpress3.0.4
wordpresswordpress3.0.5
wordpresswordpress3.0.6
wordpresswordpress3.1
wordpresswordpress3.1.1
wordpresswordpress3.1.2
wordpresswordpress3.1.3
wordpresswordpress3.1.4
wordpresswordpress3.2
wordpresswordpress3.2.1
wordpresswordpress3.3
wordpresswordpress3.3.1
wordpresswordpress3.3.2
wordpresswordpress3.3.3
wordpresswordpress3.4.0
wordpresswordpress3.4.1
wordpresswordpress3.4.2
wordpresswordpress3.5.0
wordpresswordpress3.5.1
wordpresswordpress3.6
wordpresswordpress3.6.1
wordpresswordpress3.7
wordpresswordpress3.7.1
wordpresswordpress3.8
wordpresswordpress3.8.1
wordpresswordpress3.9.0
Published: 2014-08-18