{
    "id": "CVE-2014-4725",
    "published": "2014-07-27 18:55:05",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-17 00:10:30",
    "cvss_score": "7.5",
    "cvss_severity": "HIGH",
    "cvss_version": "2.0",
    "cvss_vector": "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
    "cwe": "CWE-287",
    "description": "The MailPoet Newsletters (wysija-newsletters) plugin before 2.6.7 for WordPress allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary PHP code by uploading a crafted theme using wp-admin/admin-post.php and accessing the theme in wp-content/uploads/wysija/themes/mailp/.",
    "epss_score": "0.60656",
    "epss_percentile": "0.99121",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 1,
    "updated_at": "2026-09-26 18:19:23",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "A public exploit exists."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "mailpoet",
            "product": "mailpoet_newsletters"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "33991",
            "title": "WordPress Plugin MailPoet Newsletters 2.6.8 - 'wysija-newsletters' Arbitrary File Upload (Metasploit)",
            "date": "2014-07-07",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33991"
        }
    ],
    "refs_list": [
        "http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/mass-exploit-of-wordpress-plugin-backdoors-sites-running-joomla-magento-too/",
        "http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/mailpoet-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild-breaking-thousands-of-wordpress-sites.html",
        "http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/malware-infection-breaking-wordpress-sites.html",
        "http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/remote-file-upload-vulnerability-on-mailpoet-wysija-newsletters.html",
        "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/08/7",
        "https://wordpress.org/plugins/wysija-newsletters/changelog/",
        "http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/07/mass-exploit-of-wordpress-plugin-backdoors-sites-running-joomla-magento-too/",
        "http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/mailpoet-vulnerability-exploited-in-the-wild-breaking-thousands-of-wordpress-sites.html",
        "http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/malware-infection-breaking-wordpress-sites.html",
        "http://blog.sucuri.net/2014/07/remote-file-upload-vulnerability-on-mailpoet-wysija-newsletters.html",
        "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/07/08/7",
        "https://wordpress.org/plugins/wysija-newsletters/changelog/"
    ]
}