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CVE-2014-9401

• 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 WP Limit Posts Automatically plugin 0.7 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the lpa_post_letters parameter in the wp-limit-posts-automatically.php page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

Affected products

• Wp Limit Posts Automatically Project Wp Limit Posts Automatically: through 0.7

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129647/WordPress-WP-Limit-Posts-Automatically-0.7-CSRF-XSS.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99427
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129647/WordPress-WP-Limit-Posts-Automatically-0.7-CSRF-XSS.html
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99427

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