PT-2014-6343 · WordPress · Wordpress

Nir Goldshlager · Published 2014-08-18 · Updated 2015-11-25 · CVE-2014-5204

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 3.9.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to bypass a CSRF protection mechanism via a brute-force attack. This is due to the different timing of rejecting invalid CSRF nonces depending on which characters in the nonce are incorrect.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.9.2, update to version 3.9.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider implementing additional security measures to prevent brute-force attacks.

Fix

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-5204

DLA-56-1

DSA-3001-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 12

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-5204 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-5204 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-5204 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-5204 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-5204 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-5204 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-5204 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/13/3 · Note
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29384 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-5204 · Note