W3 Total Cache <= 0.9.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2014-9414
CVSS Medium (4.3)
Publicly Published December 10, 2014
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Mazin Ahmed
Description

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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Plugin
Software Slug w3-total-cache (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 0.9.4
Patched Version
  • 0.9.4.1
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