CVE-2015-2084

Easy Social Icons < 1.2.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via Image File Parameter

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2015-2084. PoCs published by Eric Flokstra.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This PoC demonstrates a combined XSS and CSRF vulnerability in the Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin. It exploits insufficient validation on the 'image_file' parameter to inject arbitrary JavaScript and lacks CSRF tokens, allowing an attacker to trick an admin into executing malicious payloads.

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Easy Social Icons plugin before 1.2.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the image_file parameter in an edit action in the cnss_social_icon_add page to wp-admin/admin.php.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC
by Eric Flokstra · textwebappsphp
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36161

This PoC demonstrates a combined XSS and CSRF vulnerability in the Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin. It exploits insufficient validation on the 'image_file' parameter to inject arbitrary JavaScript and lacks CSRF tokens, allowing an attacker to trick an admin into executing malicious payloads.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Xss
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Easy Social Icons WordPress plugin 1.2.2
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Access to a WordPress admin session via CSRF · Victim interaction to submit the form
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Exploit mailing-list x_refsource_fulldisc
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Feb/76
Exploit exploit x_refsource_exploit-db
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36161
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74893

Scores

EPSS 0.0262
EPSS Percentile 83.5%

Details

CWE
CWE-352
Status published
Products (1)
cybernetikz/easy_social_icons < 1.2.2
Published Feb 25, 2015
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026