PT-2014-8803 · WordPress · Wordpress

Jouko Pynnonen · Published 2014-11-25 · Updated 2015-11-02 · CVE-2014-9033

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 3.7.4, 3.8.4, 3.9.2, and 4.0

Description A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issue exists, allowing remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that reset passwords. This occurs in the wp-login.php file.

Recommendations For WordPress version 3.7.4, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue. For WordPress version 3.8.4, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue. For WordPress version 3.9.2, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue. For WordPress version 4.0, update to a version that includes the fix for this issue.

Fix

CSRF

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-352

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-9033

DLA-236-1

DSA-3085-1

MGASA-2014-0493

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 15

• http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/30418 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9033 · Security Note
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:233 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-9033 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9033 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9033 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3085 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0493 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9033 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/12 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14625 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1031243 · Note
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html · Note