Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-1494

Title: Colorlib Fancybox Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2015-1494

CWE Category CWE-79
Published Date Feb 17, 2015
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
6.41%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-1494: 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.

Impacted Vendors

C
colorlib 1

Reference Links

http://blog.sucuri.net/2015/02/zero-day-in-the-fancybox-for-wordpress-plugin.html http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/118543 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36087 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/05/10 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72506 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1082625/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/fancybox-for-wordpress/changelog/ https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-malware-2 http://blog.sucuri.net/2015/02/zero-day-in-the-fancybox-for-wordpress-plugin.html http://osvdb.org/show/osvdb/118543 http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36087 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/05/10 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72506 https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1082625/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/fancybox-for-wordpress/changelog/ https://wordpress.org/support/topic/possible-malware-2
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-2015-1494 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36087
View Code
MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

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Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

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Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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.