WP Symposium <= 14.10 — Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2014-8809Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤14.10Update to 14.11 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- Medium6.1
- CVSS
- 6.1CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:NWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:CScope- Changed
C:LConfidentiality- Low
I:LIntegrity- Low
A:NAvailability- None
- Weakness
- CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
On this page8
Am I affected?
WP Symposium wp-symposium
- Affected≤ 14.10
- Patched in14.11
Update to 14.11 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 14.10. Version 14.11 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WP Symposium.
- 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
- Update to version 14.11, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch WP Symposium to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Kacper Szurek.
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the WP Symposium plugin before 14.11 for WordPress allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) text parameter in an addComment action to ajax/profile_functions.php, (2) compose_text parameter in a sendMail action to ajax/mail_functions.php, (3) comment parameter in an add_comment action to ajax/lounge_functions.php, or (4) name parameter in a create_album action to ajax/gallery_functions.php.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
Related CVEs
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All 12| Severity | Vulnerability | CVE | Published |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medium6.1 | Reflected Cross-Site Scripting ≤15.8.1Update to 15.9 | CVE-2015-9414 | |
| High7.2 | Blind SQL Injection <15.8Update to 15.8 | — | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated SQL Injection <15.8Update to 15.8 | CVE-2015-6522 | |
| Medium5.3 | SQL Injection <15.4Update to 15.4 | CVE-2015-3325 | |
| Critical9.8 | Arbitrary File Upload ≤14.11Update to 15.1 | CVE-2014-10021 |
- Medium6.1Reflected Cross-Site Scripting
≤15.8.1Update to 15.9
- High7.2Blind SQL Injection
<15.8Update to 15.8
- Critical9.8Unauthenticated SQL Injection
<15.8Update to 15.8
- Medium5.3SQL Injection
<15.4Update to 15.4
- Critical9.8Arbitrary File Upload
≤14.11Update to 15.1
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| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Upload via File Upload via Public Form Submission | CVE-2026-125055 | |
| Critical9.8 | Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution via 'form' Parameter | CVE-2026-119077 | |
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity medium, CVSS 6.1
Record last updated
Sources & licenses
Wordfence record- Vulnerability data
- Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
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