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CVE-2015-1494

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-02-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The FancyBox for WordPress plugin before 3.0.3 for WordPress does not properly restrict access, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an mfbfw[*] parameter in an update action to wp-admin/admin-post.php, as demonstrated by the mfbfw[padding] parameter and exploited in the wild in February 2015.

Affected products

• colorlibplugins FancyBox for WordPress: through 3.0.2

References

• http://blog.sucuri.net/2015/02/zero-day-in-the-fancybox-for-wordpress-plugin.html
• http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/118543
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36087
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/05/10
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72506
• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1082625/
• https://wordpress.org/plugins/fancybox-for-wordpress/changelog/
• https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-malware-2
• http://blog.sucuri.net/2015/02/zero-day-in-the-fancybox-for-wordpress-plugin.html
• http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/118543
• http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36087
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/05/10

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