CVE-2014-9395

Exp

Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Simplelife plugin 1.2 and earlier for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the (1) simplehoverback, (2) simplehovertext, (3) flickrback, or (4) simple_flimit parameter in the simplelife.php page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

Published: 2014-12-31 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2014-9395 is rated Exploit Available (50.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.10%). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-9395

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-9395

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 2025-03-30 0.35% 0.10% -0.25%
2 2025-03-29 0.10% 0.35% +0.25%
3 2025-03-24 0.10%

Full EPSS history (14 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-9395

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-2014-9395

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-9395

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
simplelife_project simplelife <= 1.2 cpe:2.3:a:simplelife_project:simplelife:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

References for CVE-2014-9395

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