CVE-2014-5346

Exp

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Disqus Comment System plugin 2.77 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) activate or (2) deactivate the plugin via the active parameter to wp-admin/edit-comments.php, (3) import comments via an import_comments action, or (4) export comments via an export_comments action to wp-admin/index.php.

Published: 2014-08-19 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2014-5346 is rated High Exploit Risk (73.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.67%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +2.42% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-5346

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
34336 exploit_db edb 2014-08-14 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-5346

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 0.25% 2.67% +2.42%
2 2025-06-10 0.34% 0.25% -0.09%
3 2025-03-30 0.34%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-5346

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-2014-5346

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-5346

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
disqus disqus_comment_system 2.77 cpe:2.3:a:disqus:disqus_comment_system:2.77:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

References for CVE-2014-5346

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