CVE-2014-9398

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-12-31 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Twitter LiveBlog plugin 1.1.2 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the mashtlb_twitter_username parameter in the twitter-liveblog.php page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

Affected products

Twitter Liveblog Project Twitter Liveblog: through 1.1.2

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129644/WordPress-Twitter-LiveBlog-1.1.2-CSRF-XSS.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129644/WordPress-Twitter-LiveBlog-1.1.2-CSRF-XSS.html

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