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CVE-2014-9036
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, 3.9.x before 3.9.3, and 4.x before 4.0.1 allows…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 2.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 16% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, 3.9.x before 3.9.3, and 4.x before 4.0.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequence in a post.
Timeline
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- 5 days later
· 5 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)
- 2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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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
7
- DSA-3085 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20141125 Re: WordPress 4.0.1 Security Release (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1031243 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 71236 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MDVSA-2014:233 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2014-8864 (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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