CVE-2014-6312
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Login Widget With Shortcode (login-sidebar-widget) plugin before 3.2.1 for…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 4.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Login Widget With Shortcode (login-sidebar-widget) plugin before 3.2.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the custom_style_afo parameter on the login_widget_afo page to wp-admin/options-general.php.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- WordPress Plugin Login Widget With ShortCode 3.1.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 34762webapps, phppublished 25 Sept 2014Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 34762 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 34 days later
· 34 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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.2% · top 9.1% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 20140917 CSRF/XSS vulnerablity in Login Widget With Shortcode allows unauthenticated attackers to do anything an admin can do (WordPress plugin) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 34762 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/login-sidebar-widget/changelog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrfxss-vulnerablity-in-login-widget-with-shortcode-allows-unauthenticated-attackers-to-do-anything-an-admin-can-do (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 111757 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 111700 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_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-2014-6196 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2014-6312)Record last updated .