CVE-2015-1494
45Vexday Risk Score
Prioritize patching. It exploitation observed by VulnCheck and has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Actepss 6.4%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDFeb 17
1st PoCFeb 16
VulnCheckFeb 17
exploitation probability
6.4%top 7% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
yesVulnCheck
2 public exploit(s)
The FancyBox for WordPress plugin before 3.0.3 for WordPress does not properly restrict access, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via an mfbfw[*] parameter in an update action to wp-admin/admin-post.php, as demonstrated by the mfbfw[padding] parameter and exploited in the wild in February 2015.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 2✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/36087cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/36087unverified⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://blog.sucuri.net/2015/02/zero-day-in-the-fancybox-for-wordpress-plugin.htmlhttp://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/118543https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1082625/https://wordpress.org/plugins/fancybox-for-wordpress/changelog/https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-malware-2http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36087http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/05/10http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72506