CVE-2014-5205 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

wp-includes/pluggable.php in WordPress before 3.9.2 does not use delimiters during concatenation of action values and uid values in CSRF tokens, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass a CSRF protection mechanism via a brute-force attack.

Published: 2014-08-18

Score: 6.8 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.9.0:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Debian DLA	DLA-56-1	wordpress security update
EUVD	EUVD-2014-5103	wp-includes/pluggable.php in WordPress before 3.9.2 does not use delimiters during concatenation of action values and uid values in CSRF tokens, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass a CSRF protection mechanism via a brute-force attack.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00142.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/13/3
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29408
https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/

History

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Subscriptions

Wordpress Wordpress

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-08-18T10:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T11:41:47.475Z

Reserved: 2014-08-13T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-5205

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-08-18T11:15:26.450

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2014-5205

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-352

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