CVE-2014-9311
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin.php in the Shareaholic plugin before 7.6.1.0 for WordPress allows remote authenticated…
- 3.5LowCVSS base score
- 3.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin.php in the Shareaholic plugin before 7.6.1.0 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the location[id] parameter in a shareaholic_add_location action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.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.
Show the exploits1
Exploit-DB1 entry
- WordPress Plugin Shareaholic 7.6.0.3 - Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36674webapps, phppublished 8 Apr 2015Not verified
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
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 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 | Low3.5 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.9% · top 9.7% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References3
- http://security.szurek.pl/shareaholic-7603-xss.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131321/WordPress-Shareaholic-7.6.0.3-Cross-Site-Scripting.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/shareaholic/changelog/ (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-2014-9136 (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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