Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Pods plugin before 2.5 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that (1) conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the toggled parameter in a toggle action in the pods-components page to wp-admin/admin.php, (2) delete a pod in a delete action in the pods page to wp-admin/admin.php, (3) reset pod settings and data via the pods_reset parameter in the pod-settings page to wp-admin/admin.php, (4) deactivate and reset pod data via the pods_reset_deactivate parameter in the pod-settings page to wp-admin/admin.php, (5) delete the admin role via the id parameter in a delete action in the pods-component-roles-and-capabilities page to wp-admin/admin.php, or (6) enable "roles and capabilities" in a toggle action in the pods-components page to wp-admin/admin.php.
CVE-2014-7957 is a critical severity with CVSS 9.6 Cross-Site Scripting issue affecting the Plugin Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields. It affects Versions up to 2.4.3 and is fixed in 2.5.
CVE-2014-7957 is tracked for the Plugin Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields as critical severity with CVSS 9.6. The affected range is Versions up to 2.4.3. Update Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields to 2.5 or newer where that version is compatible with the site.
| Software Type | Plugin |
|---|---|
| Software Slug | |
| CVE | CVE-2014-7957 |
| Patched Versions |
2.5
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| Affected Versions |
Versions up to 2.4.3
|
These internal links group the same WordPress plugin by CVE, issue type, severity, and patch status so operators and search engines can connect the full vulnerability cluster.
Pods - Custom Content Types and Fields - Authenticated (Contributor+) Remote Code Execution
Pods - Custom Content Types and Fields - Authenticated (Contributor+) SQL Injection via Shortcode
Pods <= 2.9.10.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
Pods <= 2.4.3 - Cross-Site Scripting
Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields <= 3.2.1 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Pod Form Redirect URL
Pods 2.4.4.1 - 2.7.26 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting
Pods <= 2.7.26 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting via Menu Label field
Pods – Custom Content Types and Fields <= 3.2.8.1 - Authenticated (Admin+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting
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