Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-2204

Title: Wordpress Improper Input Validation

Input Validation Error

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2013-2204.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Jul 08, 2013

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.90%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-2204: moxieplayer.as in Moxiecode moxieplayer, as used in the TinyMCE Media plugin in WordPress before 3.5.2 and other products, does not consider the presence of a # (pound sign) character during extraction of the QUERY_STRING, which allows remote attackers to pass arbitrary parameters to a Flash application, and conduct content-spoofing attacks, via a crafted string after a ? (question mark) character.

Impacted Vendors

tinymce 1

wordpress 1

Reference Links

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.2 http://wordpress.org/news/2013/06/wordpress-3-5-2/ http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2718 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976784 https://github.com/moxiecode/moxieplayer/commit/b61ac518ffa2657e2dc9019b2dcf2f3f37dbfab0 http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.2 http://wordpress.org/news/2013/06/wordpress-3-5-2/ http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2718 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976784 https://github.com/moxiecode/moxieplayer/commit/b61ac518ffa2657e2dc9019b2dcf2f3f37dbfab0

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-2204 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 08, 2013 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.