CVE-2014-5196 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in improved-user-search-in-backend.php in the backend in the Improved user search in backend plugin before 1.2.5 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that insert XSS sequences via the iusib_meta_fields parameter

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Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in improved-user-search-in-backend.php in the backend in the Improved user search in backend plugin before 1.2.5 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that insert XSS sequences via the iusib_meta_fields parameter

Published Aug 12, 2014

4.3

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.13%

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in improved-user-search-in-backend.php in the backend in the Improved user search in backend plugin before 1.2.5 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that insert XSS sequences via the iusib_meta_fields parameter.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.13% 0.02125

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.02125

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (14 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	2.13% (0.02125)	81.24th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.13% (0.02125)	79.44th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	0.53% (0.00526)	64.40th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	4.58% (0.04584)	81.67th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 24, 2025	0.53% (0.00526)	64.44th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 23, 2025	2.40% (0.02397)	82.04th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	0.40% (0.00400)	58.58th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.22% (0.00223)	61.53th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 13, 2024	0.22% (0.00223)	60.77th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.22% (0.00223)	58.77th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-79

Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

References (3)

http://secunia.com/advisories/60590
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://wordpress.org/plugins/improved-user-search-in-backend/changelog
x_refsource_MISCPatchVendor Advisory
https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrf-and-xss-in-improved-user-search-allow-execution-of-arbitrary-javascript-in-wordpress-admin-area/
x_refsource_MISCExploit

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/60590		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://wordpress.org/plugins/improved-user-search-in-backend/changelog		x_refsource_MISCPatchVendor Advisory
https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrf-and-xss-in-improved-user-search-allow-execution-of-arbitrary-javascript-in-wordpress-admin-area/		x_refsource_MISCExploit

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Aug 12, 2014

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Aug 12, 2014

Link CVE-2014-5196

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-5196

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2014-5196