CVE-2014-5347
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Disqus Comment System plugin before 2.76 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks…
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB, so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 4.9%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities in the Disqus Comment System plugin before 2.76 for WordPress allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the (1) disqus_replace, (2) disqus_public_key, or (3) disqus_secret_key parameter to wp-admin/edit-comments.php in manage.php or that (4) reset or (5) delete plugin options via the reset parameter to wp-admin/edit-comments.php.
- CVSS 2.0
- 6.8 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 4.89% probability · 92th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · first 14 August 2014
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-352
- Affected
- disqus/disqus comment system
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 4.9% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127847/WordPress-Disqus-2.7.5-CSRF-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127852/Disqus-2.7.5-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery-Cross-Site-Scripting.htmlExploit
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/35
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34336Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69205
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95288
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95289
- https://gist.github.com/nikcub/cb5dc7a5464276c8424a
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/disqus-comment-system/other_notesPatch
- https://www.nikcub.com/posts/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-disqus-wordpress-pluginExploit
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127847/WordPress-Disqus-2.7.5-CSRF-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127852/Disqus-2.7.5-Cross-Site-Request-Forgery-Cross-Site-Scripting.htmlExploit
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/35
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/34336Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69205
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95288
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95289
- https://gist.github.com/nikcub/cb5dc7a5464276c8424a
- https://wordpress.org/plugins/disqus-comment-system/other_notesPatch
- https://www.nikcub.com/posts/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-disqus-wordpress-pluginExploit
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.