CVE-2014-6312
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Login Widget With Shortcode (login-sidebar-widget) plugin before 3.2.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the custom_style_afo parameter on the login_widget_afo page to wp-admin/options-general.php.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 4.2% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-6196)
- Published
- October 15, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-6196 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- login widget with shortcode project / login widget with shortcode
- login widget with shortcode project / login widget with shortcode
- login widget with shortcode project / login widget with shortcode
- login widget with shortcode project / login widget with shortcode
- login widget with shortcode project / login widget with shortcode
- login widget with shortcode project / login widget with shortcode
- login widget with shortcode project / login widget with shortcode
References
- http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/111700
- http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/111757
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Sep/58(Exploit)
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34762(Exploit)
- https://security.dxw.com/advisories/csrfxss-vulnerablity-in-login-widget-with-shortcode-allows-unauthenticated-attackers-to-do-anything-an-admin-can-do(Exploit)
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/login-sidebar-widget/changelog
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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