PT-2014-8804 · WordPress · Wordpress

Jouko Pynnonen · Published 2014-11-25 · Updated 2016-04-04 · CVE-2014-9034

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 3.7.5 WordPress versions 3.8.x prior to 3.8.5 WordPress versions 3.9.x prior to 3.9.3 WordPress versions 4.x prior to 4.0.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically CPU consumption, by providing a long password that is not handled properly during the hashing process.

Recommendations For WordPress versions prior to 3.7.5, update to version 3.7.5 or later. For WordPress versions 3.8.x prior to 3.8.5, update to version 3.8.5 or later. For WordPress versions 3.9.x prior to 3.9.3, update to version 3.9.3 or later. For WordPress versions 4.x prior to 4.0.1, update to version 4.0.1 or later.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-19

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-9034

DLA-236-1

DSA-3085-1

MGASA-2014-0493

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 18

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/dos/http/wordpress_long_password_dos.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/35413 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/35414 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9034 · Vendor Advisory
• 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-2014-9034 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9034 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3085 · Vendor Advisory
• http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/30467 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9034 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0493 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/12 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14625 · Note