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CVE-2014-6312

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-10-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Login Widget With Shortcode (login-sidebar-widget) plugin before 3.2.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the custom_style_afo parameter on the login_widget_afo page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

Affected products

• Login Widget With Shortcode Project Login Widget With Shortcode: through 3.1.1; 1.0.1, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.3, 2.2.3, 2.2.4

References

• http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/111700
• http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/111757
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Sep/58
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34762
• https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrfxss-vulnerablity-in-login-widget-with-shortcode-allows-unauthenticated-attackers-to-do-anything-an-admin-can-do
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/login-sidebar-widget/changelog
• http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/111700
• http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/111757
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Sep/58
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34762
• https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrfxss-vulnerablity-in-login-widget-with-shortcode-allows-unauthenticated-attackers-to-do-anything-an-admin-can-do
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/login-sidebar-widget/changelog

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