CVE-2014-9414

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-12-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

The W3 Total Cache plugin before 0.9.4.1 for WordPress does not properly handle empty nonces, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the mobile site redirect URI via the mobile_groups[*][redirect] parameter and an empty _wpnonce parameter in the w3tc_mobile page to wp-admin/admin.php.

Affected products

boldgrid W3 Total Cache: through 0.9.4

References

http://mazinahmed1.blogspot.com/2014/12/w3-total-caches-w3totalfail.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129512/W3-Total-Cache-0.9.4-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/67
http://secunia.com/advisories/61562
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534250/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99352
https://github.com/wp-plugins/w3-total-cache/commit/9a1cc9f70558282e135eb3120d271448c75b28dd#diff-86a10b31ab115483fe8111bedac14d15
https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/
http://mazinahmed1.blogspot.com/2014/12/w3-total-caches-w3totalfail.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129512/W3-Total-Cache-0.9.4-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/67
http://secunia.com/advisories/61562

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