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Wordfence <= 5.1.4 — Reflected Cross-Site Scripting

CVE-2014-4932Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: <5.1.5Update to 5.1.5 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Medium6.1
CVSS
6.1
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:R User interaction
Required
S:C Scope
Changed
C:L Confidentiality
Low
I:L Integrity
Low
A:N Availability
None
Weakness
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
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Am I affected?

Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security wordfence

  1. Affected< 5.1.5
  2. Patched in5.1.5

Update to 5.1.5 or newer.

You are affected if you run < 5.1.5. Version 5.1.5 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 5.1.5, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to nikhil.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Wordfence Security plugin before 5.1.5 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the val parameter to whois.php.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

More in Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security

All 12
More vulnerabilities in Wordfence Security – Firewall, Malware Scan, and Login Security
SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium4.4Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
≤7.6.0Update to 7.6.1
CVE-2022-3144
Medium4.7Reflected Cross-Site Scripting and Information Disclosure
<7.1.14Update to 7.1.14
—
Medium6.16.1.6 - Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
6.1.1 – 6.1.6Update to 6.1.7
—
High7.2Stored Cross-Site Scripting via HTTP_HOST
≤5.2.3Update to 5.2.4
—
High7.2Stored Cross-Site Scripting via REQUEST_URI
≤5.2.3Update to 5.2.4
—

Same weakness (Cross-Site Scripting)

All Cross-Site Scripting
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CVE-2026-120688
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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity medium, CVSS 6.1

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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