CVE-2015-1494 (GCVE-0-2015-1494)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-02-17 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:47Summary
The FancyBox for WordPress plugin before 3.0.3 for WordPress does not properly restrict access, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an mfbfw[*] parameter in an update action to wp-admin/admin-post.php, as demonstrated by the mfbfw[padding] parameter and exploited in the wild in February 2015.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72506 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
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| https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1082625/ | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36087 | exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB |
| https://wordpress.org/plugins/fancybox-for-wordpr… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-malware-2 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/118543 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
| http://blog.sucuri.net/2015/02/zero-day-in-the-fa… | x_refsource_MISC |
Date Public
2015-02-04 00:00
Previdian
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
KEV entry ID: 890c2e83-31a9-4aea-a50d-c5962d31003d
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
First Seen: 2015-02-17
Asserted: 2015-02-17
Scope
Notes: KEVIntel entry: The FancyBox for WordPress plugin before 3.0.3 for WordPress does not properly restrict access, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site... | Affected: WordPress / FancyBox for WordPress plugin | CVSS: 4.3 (MEDIUM) | Used in malware: unknown | Not yet in CISA KEV: True
Evidence
Type: Public Report
Signal: Successful Exploitation
Confidence: 70%
Source: kevintel
Details
| Feed | KEVIntel (kevintel.com) |
|---|---|
| Title | The FancyBox for WordPress plugin before 3.0.3 for WordPress does not properly restrict access, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site... |
| Vendor | WordPress |
| Product | FancyBox for WordPress plugin |
| Added Date | 2015-02-17T15:00:00.000Z |
| Cvss Score | 4.3 |
| Epss Score | None |
| Cvss Severity | MEDIUM |
| Epss Percentile | None |
| Used In Malware | unknown |
| Ahead Of Cisa Kev | None |
| Not Yet In Cisa Kev | True |
References
Created: 2026-06-23 14:04 UTC
| Updated: 2026-07-10 06:14 UTC
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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