CVE-2014-4664

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-11-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Wordfence Security plugin before 5.1.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the whoisval parameter on the WordfenceWhois page to wp-admin/admin.php.

Affected products

Wordfence Security Project Wordfence Security: 5.0.1, 5.0.2, 5.0.3, 5.0.4, 5.0.5, 5.0.6 (+5)

References

http://hacktivity.websecgeeks.com/word-press-firewall-plugin-xss/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533907/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70911
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70915
http://www.wordfence.com/blog/2014/06/security-fix-wordfence-5-1-4/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/changelog/
http://hacktivity.websecgeeks.com/word-press-firewall-plugin-xss/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533907/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70911
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70915
http://www.wordfence.com/blog/2014/06/security-fix-wordfence-5-1-4/
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordfence/changelog/

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