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CVE-2014-9174

• 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: none known
• Published: 2014-12-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Google Analytics by Yoast (google-analytics-for-wordpress) plugin before 5.1.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "Manually enter your UA code" (manual_ua_code_field) field in the General Settings.

Affected products

• Yoast Google Analytics: through 5.1.2; 5.1, 5.1.1

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71330
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99053
• https://twitter.com/yoast/status/537569224307511296
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/changelog/
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7692
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71330
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99053
• https://twitter.com/yoast/status/537569224307511296
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-analytics-for-wordpress/changelog/
• https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7692

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