CVE-2014-2340: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the XCloner plugin before 3.1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create website

medium Affects xcloner-backup-and-restore (WordPress plugin). Feed 2026.10.29.1, updated 2026-10-28; published ; advisory modified .

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the XCloner plugin before 3.1.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that create website

Package
xcloner-backup-and-restore (WordPress plugin) WordPress
Affected versions
<=3.1.0 or =2.1 or =2.1.2 or =2.2.1 or =3.0 or =3.0.1 or =3.0.2 or =3.0.3 or =3.0.4 or =3.0.5 or =3.0.6 or =3.0.7 or =3.0.8
Fixed in
no fix recorded
Severity
medium  CVSS 6.8
Exploitation
not on CISA KEV · EPSS 3% (86.6th percentile)
Published
2014-04-03
Source
nvd

References

CWE-352
NVD recordxcloner-backup-and-restore (WordPress plugin) advisories

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