CVE-2014-2340

Exp

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the XCloner plugin before 3.1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create website backups via a request to wp-admin/plugins.php.

Published: 2014-04-03 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-2340 is rated High Exploit Risk (73.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.83%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.42% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-2340

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
32701 exploit_db edb 2014-04-04 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-2340

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 1.41% 2.83% +1.42%
2 2025-11-17 1.52% 1.41% -0.11%
3 2025-09-11 — 1.52% —

Full EPSS history (14 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-2340

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-2340

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-2340

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
xcloner xcloner <= 3.1.0 cpe:2.3:a:xcloner:xcloner:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
xcloner xcloner 2.1 cpe:2.3:a:xcloner:xcloner:2.1:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
xcloner xcloner 2.1.2 cpe:2.3:a:xcloner:xcloner:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
xcloner xcloner 2.2.1 cpe:2.3:a:xcloner:xcloner:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
xcloner xcloner 3.0 cpe:2.3:a:xcloner:xcloner:3.0:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
xcloner xcloner 3.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:xcloner:xcloner:3.0.1:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
xcloner xcloner 3.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:xcloner:xcloner:3.0.2:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
xcloner xcloner 3.0.3 cpe:2.3:a:xcloner:xcloner:3.0.3:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
xcloner xcloner 3.0.4 cpe:2.3:a:xcloner:xcloner:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
xcloner xcloner 3.0.5 cpe:2.3:a:xcloner:xcloner:3.0.5:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
xcloner xcloner 3.0.6 cpe:2.3:a:xcloner:xcloner:3.0.6:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
xcloner xcloner 3.0.7 cpe:2.3:a:xcloner:xcloner:3.0.7:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
xcloner xcloner 3.0.8 cpe:2.3:a:xcloner:xcloner:3.0.8:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

References for CVE-2014-2340

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