CVE-2014-8809

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-12-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the WP Symposium plugin before 14.11 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) text parameter in an addComment action to ajax/profile_functions.php, (2) compose_text parameter in a sendMail action to ajax/mail_functions.php, (3) comment parameter in an add_comment action to ajax/lounge_functions.php, or (4) name parameter in a create_album action to ajax/gallery_functions.php.

Affected products

Wpsymposiumpro Wp Symposium: through 14.10

References

http://security.szurek.pl/wp-symposium-1410-multiple-xss-and-sql-injection.html
http://www.wpsymposium.com/release-information-for-v14-11/
http://security.szurek.pl/wp-symposium-1410-multiple-xss-and-sql-injection.html
http://www.wpsymposium.com/release-information-for-v14-11/

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