CVE-2014-2340

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-04-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the XCloner plugin before 3.1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create website backups via a request to wp-admin/plugins.php.

Affected products

Xcloner: through 3.1.0; 2.1, 2.1.2, 2.2.1, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2 (+6)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/57362
http://wordpress.org/plugins/xcloner-backup-and-restore/changelog/
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/32701
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531712/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66280
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23206
http://secunia.com/advisories/57362
http://wordpress.org/plugins/xcloner-backup-and-restore/changelog/
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/32701
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/531712/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66280
https://www.htbridge.com/advisory/HTB23206

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