CVE-2014-9099

medium

Published 2014-11-26 · 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 WhyDoWork AdSense plugin 1.2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that have unspecified impact via a request to the whydowork_adsense page in wp-admin/options-general.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-39270 webapps php verified

Dylan Irzi · 2014-07-28

WordPress Plugin WhyDoWork AdSense - 'options-general.php' Cross-Site Request Forgery (Option Manipulation)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
whydowork_adsense_project	whydowork_adsense	`1.2`

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.