CVE-2014-7956

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-01-15 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Pods plugin before 2.5 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the id parameter in an edit action in the pods page to wp-admin/admin.php.

Affected products

sc0ttkclark Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields: through 2.4.3

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129890/WordPress-Pods-2.4.3-CSRF-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/26
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534437/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71995
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129890/WordPress-Pods-2.4.3-CSRF-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/26
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534437/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71995

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