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CVE-2014-5196

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-08-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in improved-user-search-in-backend.php in the backend in the Improved user search in backend plugin before 1.2.5 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that insert XSS sequences via the iusib_meta_fields parameter.

Affected products

• Improved User Search In Backend Project Improved User Search In Backend: through 1.2.4

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/60590
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/improved-user-search-in-backend/changelog
• https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrf-and-xss-in-improved-user-search-allow-execution-of-arbitrary-javascript-in-wordpress-admin-area/
• http://secunia.com/advisories/60590
• http://wordpress.org/plugins/improved-user-search-in-backend/changelog
• https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrf-and-xss-in-improved-user-search-allow-execution-of-arbitrary-javascript-in-wordpress-admin-area/

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