VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-2340

medium
Published 2014-04-03 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the XCloner plugin before 3.1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create website backups via a request to wp-admin/plugins.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-32701 webapps php
High-Tech Bridge SA · 2014-04-04

WordPress Plugin XCloner 3.1.0 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
xclonerxcloner{"endIncluding":"3.1.0"}
xclonerxcloner2.1
xclonerxcloner2.1.2
xclonerxcloner2.2.1
xclonerxcloner3.0
xclonerxcloner3.0.1
xclonerxcloner3.0.2
xclonerxcloner3.0.3
xclonerxcloner3.0.4
xclonerxcloner3.0.5
xclonerxcloner3.0.6
xclonerxcloner3.0.7
xclonerxcloner3.0.8

References

CWEs

CWE-352

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.