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CVE-2014-8724

• 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: 2014-12-19 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the W3 Total Cache plugin before 0.9.4.1 for WordPress, when debug mode is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "Cache key" in the HTML-Comments, as demonstrated by the PATH_INFO to the default URI.

Affected products

• boldgrid W3 Total Cache: through 0.9.4

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129626/W3-Total-Cache-0.9.4-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534266/100/0/threaded
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/
• https://www.secuvera.de/advisories/secuvera-SA-2014-01.txt
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129626/W3-Total-Cache-0.9.4-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534266/100/0/threaded
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/
• https://www.secuvera.de/advisories/secuvera-SA-2014-01.txt

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