CVE-2014-5199 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WordPress File Upload plugin (wp-file-upload) before 2.4.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change plugin settings via unspecified vectors

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Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WordPress File Upload plugin (wp-file-upload) before 2.4.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change plugin settings via unspecified vectors

Published Aug 12, 2014

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.97%

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WordPress File Upload plugin (wp-file-upload) before 2.4.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change plugin settings via unspecified vectors. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

0.97% 0.00970

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

EPSS probability 0.00970

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)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	0.97% (0.00970)	60.53th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	0.97% (0.00970)	57.15th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 30, 2025	0.13% (0.00125)	28.56th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	3.00% (0.02995)	77.57th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	0.09% (0.00094)	24.29th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.11% (0.00111)	46.07th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Jun 22, 2024	0.08% (0.00077)	33.24th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 15, 2024	0.10% (0.00095)	38.65th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.09% (0.00086)	34.93th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.11% (0.00111)	42.68th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.05% (0.01055)	52.13th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Sep 17, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	50.47th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	48.43th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.05% (0.01055)	27.52th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-352

CSRF

References (2)

http://secunia.com/advisories/60520
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-file-upload/changelog
x_refsource_MISCPatchVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/60520		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-file-upload/changelog		x_refsource_MISCPatchVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Aug 12, 2014

Updated Sep 16, 2024

Reserved Aug 12, 2014

Link CVE-2014-5199

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-5199

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2014-5199