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CVE-2014-5345

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-5345 describes a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Disqus Comment System plugin for WordPress, specifically affecting versions prior to 2.76. An attacker could inject malicious web scripts or HTML through the 'step' parameter in upgrade.php. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating medium attack complexity and potential for partial integrity impact, but no confidentiality or availability impact. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-34336) exists, suggesting publicly available exploit code. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.75CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:disqus:disqus_comment_system:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
2.40CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:disqus:disqus_comment_system:2.40:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
2.41CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:disqus:disqus_comment_system:2.41:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
2.42CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:disqus:disqus_comment_system:2.42:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*
2.43CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:disqus:disqus_comment_system:2.43:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-34336 · Aug 14, 2014
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0609 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 19,953 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/127847/WordPress-Disqus-2.7.5-CSRF-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2014/Aug/35
wordpress.org / plugins/disqus-comment-system/other_notes
Patch
nikcub.com / posts/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-disqus-wordpress-plugin
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/69205