CVE-2015-2084

Exp

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Easy Social Icons plugin before 1.2.3 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the image_file parameter in an edit action in the cnss_social_icon_add page to wp-admin/admin.php.

Published: 2015-02-25 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2015-2084 is rated High Exploit Risk (73.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.62%). Core evidence: 4 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.95% 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-2015-2084

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
36161 exploit_db edb 2015-02-23 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2015-2084

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 0.68% 2.62% +1.95%
2 2025-04-17 0.79% 0.68% -0.12%
3 2025-03-30 0.79%

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2015-2084

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-2015-2084

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2015-2084

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
cybernetikz easy_social_icons <= 1.2.2 cpe:2.3:a:cybernetikz:easy_social_icons:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

References for CVE-2015-2084

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