CVE-2014-9397 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the twimp-wp plugin for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the message_format parameter in the twimp-wp.php page to wp-admin/options-general.php

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Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the twimp-wp plugin for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the message_format parameter in the twimp-wp.php page to wp-admin/options-general.php

Published Dec 31, 2014

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.01%

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the twimp-wp plugin for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the message_format parameter in the twimp-wp.php page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.01% 0.01015

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

EPSS probability 0.01015

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 (11 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.01% (0.01015)	61.98th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.01% (0.01015)	58.62th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.13% (0.00125)	29.30th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.16% (0.00158)	53.54th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 6, 2024	0.16% (0.00158)	51.91th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 16, 2024	0.18% (0.00177)	53.89th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.16% (0.00158)	50.46th	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://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129643/WordPress-twimp-wp-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
x_refsource_MISCExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99380
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129643/WordPress-twimp-wp-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery-Cross-Site-Scripting.html		x_refsource_MISCExploit
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99380		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Dec 31, 2014

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Dec 17, 2014

Link CVE-2014-9397

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2014-9397

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2014-9397