Vulnerability CVE-2014-8724
Published: 2014-12-19

Description:
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the W3 Total Cache plugin before 0.9.4.1 for WordPress, when debug mode is enabled, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the "Cache key" in the HTML-Comments, as demonstrated by the PATH_INFO to the default URI.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
W3 Total Cache 0.9.4 Cross Site Scripting
Tobias Glemser
18.12.2014

Type:

CWE-79

 (Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
Partial
None
Affected software
W3edge -> Total cache 

 References:
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129626/W3-Total-Cache-0.9.4-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/534266/100/0/threaded
https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/changelog/
https://www.secuvera.de/advisories/secuvera-SA-2014-01.txt
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