CVE-2014-5240 (GCVE-0-2014-5240)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-08-18 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 11:41
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/pluggable.php in WordPress before 3.9.2, when Multisite is enabled, allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, and obtain Super Admin privileges, via a crafted avatar URL.
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