Strategic Overview
- Status
- Patched in .52.5
- Affected Plugin
- BulletProof Security
- Affected Version
< .52.5- CVSS
- 4.8Medium
- Weakness type
- CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
- CVE
CVE-2015-9230
At a glance
CVE-2015-9230 is a medium-severity Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in the BulletProof Security WordPress plugin, affecting versions < .52.5. It carries a CVSS score of 4.8 (reachable over the network; low attack complexity). The issue is fixed in version .52.5; sites on affected versions should update now. Disclosed September 2014, reported by Sathish Kumar.
Vulnerability Overview
In the admin/db-backup-security/db-backup-security.php page in the BulletProof Security plugin before .52.5 for WordPress, XSS is possible for remote authenticated administrators via the DBTablePrefix parameter.
Technical Analysis
The vector marks this flaw as remotely reachable over the network, with low attack complexity — no special timing or configuration is needed.
CWE-79: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Reaching this weakness in BulletProof Security < .52.5 takes a caller who can reach the endpoint. Cross-site scripting happens when input from a request is written into a page without being escaped for the context it lands in, so the browser parses attacker-supplied text as markup or script.
Injected script runs with the privileges of whoever views the affected page, which is how these flaws turn into administrator session theft, silent account creation or persistent backdoors in page content. For BulletProof Security the fix is .52.5: builds < .52.5 are affected, anything from .52.5 onward is not.
Remediation
Update to version .52.5, or a newer patched version
How does WordSec protect against this?
The attempt arrives as an ordinary request to BulletProof Security: WordSec's web application firewall inspects request payloads before WordPress loads them. None of that substitutes for the fix: BulletProof Security .52.5 closes this, and updating the plugin is the step that ends it.
- Firewall
- Alerts
External References
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CVE-2022-0590 - 5.4CVE-2014-7958: BulletProof Security < .51.1 Cross-Site Scripting
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CVE-2025-67931 - 5.3CVE-2021-39327: BulletProof Security <= 5.1 Info Disclosure
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CVE-2014-8749
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