CVE-2014-9414

W3 Total Cache < 0.9.4 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via Empty Nonce

Title source: llm

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 (8)

Core 8

Core References

Patch x_refsource_confirm

https://github.com/wp-plugins/w3-total-cache/commit/9a1cc9f70558282e135eb3120d271448c75b28dd#diff-86a10b31ab115483fe8111bedac14d15

Exploit x_refsource_misc

http://mazinahmed1.blogspot.com/2014/12/w3-total-caches-w3totalfail.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99352

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry mailing-list x_refsource_bugtraq

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534250/100/0/threaded

Exploit mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/67

Exploit x_refsource_misc

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129512/W3-Total-Cache-0.9.4-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html

Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia

http://secunia.com/advisories/61562

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/

Scores

EPSS 0.0136

EPSS Percentile 68.4%

Details

CWE

CWE-352

Status published

Products (1)

boldgrid/w3_total_cache < 0.9.4

Published Dec 24, 2014

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026