CVE-2014-5460
Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the Tribulant Slideshow Gallery plugin before 1.4.7 for WordPress allows remote authenticated…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 70.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the Tribulant Slideshow Gallery plugin before 1.4.7 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by uploading a PHP file, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in wp-content/uploads/slideshow-gallery/.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits5
Metasploit modules1 module
- Wordpress SlideShow Gallery Authenticated File Upload (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/unix/webapp/wp_slideshowgallery_uploadRank excellentdisclosed 28 Aug 2014
Exploit-DB2 entries
- WordPress Plugin Slideshow Gallery 1.4.6 - Arbitrary File Upload (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 34681webapps, phppublished 16 Sept 2014Verified
- WordPress Plugin Slideshow Gallery 1.4.6 - Arbitrary File Upload (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 34514webapps, phppublished 1 Sept 2014Not verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- 34681 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 34514 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 16 days later
· 16 days later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 70.9% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 34681 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128069/WordPress-Slideshow-Gallery-1.4.6-Shell-Upload.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://whitexploit.blogspot.mx/2014/08/wordpress-slideshow-gallery-146-shell.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20140830 WordPress Slideshow Gallery 1.4.6 Shell Upload Vulnerability (CVE-2014-5460) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 60074 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 34514 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/slideshow-gallery/changelog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- wp-slideshowgallery-cve20145460-shell-upload(95676) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-5347 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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