CVE-2015-4140

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-06-18 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WP Smiley plugin 1.4.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of editors for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the s4w-more parameter to the smilies4wp.php page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

Affected products

Wp Smiley Project Wp Smiley: 1.4.1

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/29/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/31/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74914
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/29/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/31/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74914

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