Simple Sticky Footer <= 1.3.2 — Cross-Site Request Forgery to Cross-Site Scripting
CVE-2014-9454Published · Updated Action summary
Affected: ≤1.3.2Update to 1.3.3 or newer
All remediation steps- Severity
- High8.8
- CVSS
- 8.8CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HWhat does this vector mean?
AV:NAttack vector- Network
AC:LAttack complexity- Low
PR:NPrivileges required- None
UI:RUser interaction- Required
S:UScope- Unchanged
C:HConfidentiality- High
I:HIntegrity- High
A:HAvailability- High
- Weakness
- CWE-352 CSRF
- Required access
- No account needed
- Exploit prediction (EPSS)
- No score
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
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Am I affected?
Simple Sticky Footer simple-sticky-footer
- Affected≤ 1.3.2
- Patched in1.3.3
Update to 1.3.3 or newer.
You are affected if you run ≤ 1.3.2. Version 1.3.3 and later are not affected by this issue.
- Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under Simple Sticky Footer.
- 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 1.3.3, or a newer patched version
- Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
- Watch Simple Sticky Footer to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.
Advisory
Source description from Wordfence Intelligence, credited to Kenneth Jepsen, Mikkel Vej, Morten Nortoft.
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Simple Sticky Footer plugin before 1.3.3 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) change plugin settings via unspecified vectors or conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the (2) simple_sf_width or (3) simple_sf_style parameter in the simple-simple-sticky-footer page to wp-admin/themes.php.
Exploits & references
Proof-of-concept & detection
No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.
Advisories & patches
- Advisorywordfence.com
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Timeline
CVE published
Severity high, CVSS 8.8
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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