CVE-2015-4140 — Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WP Smiley plugin 1.4.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of editors for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the s4w-more parameter to the smilies4wp.php page to wp-admin/options-general.php

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Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WP Smiley plugin 1.4.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of editors for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the s4w-more parameter to the smilies4wp.php page to wp-admin/options-general.php

Published Jun 18, 2015

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 1.14%

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the WP Smiley plugin 1.4.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of editors for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the s4w-more parameter to the smilies4wp.php page to wp-admin/options-general.php.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

1.14% 0.01141

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

EPSS probability 0.01141

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 (10 key points)

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

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	1.14% (0.01141)	65.44th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	1.15% (0.01149)	62.59th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 17, 2025	0.10% (0.00104)	26.01th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.42% (0.00420)	74.99th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.42% (0.00420)	73.49th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.42% (0.00420)	70.14th	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-352

CSRF

References (3)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/29/1
mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTExploit
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/31/2
mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74914
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/29/1		mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTExploit
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/31/2		mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74914		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Jun 18, 2015

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved May 31, 2015

Link CVE-2015-4140

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2015-4140

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2015-4140