CVE-2014-9311

Exp

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in admin.php in the Shareaholic plugin before 7.6.1.0 for WordPress allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the location[id] parameter in a shareaholic_add_location action to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php.

Published: 2015-04-14 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2014-9311 is rated High Exploit Risk (63.6/100): CVSS Low severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.89%). Core evidence: 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +3.52% 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-2014-9311

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
36674 exploit_db edb 2015-04-08 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-9311

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 0.37% 3.89% +3.52%
2 2025-05-04 0.55% 0.37% -0.17%
3 2025-03-30 0.55%

Full EPSS history (14 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-9311

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
3.5 2.0 LOW
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N 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:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
6.8 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-9311

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-9311

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
shareaholic shareaholic <= 7.6.0.9 cpe:2.3:a:shareaholic:shareaholic:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

References for CVE-2014-9311

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