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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2014-9099 EUVD-2014-8925GHSA-xqr3-6f53-5v7g

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WhyDoWork AdSense plugin 1.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the aut…

Published Nov 26, 2014 · Updated Sep 17, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WhyDoWork AdSense plugin 1.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that have unspecified impact via a request to the whydowork_adsense page in wp-admin/options-general.php.

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

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