PT-2014-8808 · WordPress · Wordpress

Jouko Pynnonen · Published 2014-11-25 · Updated 2015-10-05 · CVE-2014-9038

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

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

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 conduct server-side request forgery (SSRF) attacks by referring to a 127.0.0.0/8 resource. This is due to a problem in the wp-includes/http.php file.

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.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-9038

DLA-236-1

DSA-3085-1

MGASA-2014-0493

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 15

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9038 · Vendor Advisory
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/30444 · 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-2014-9038 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9038 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9038 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3085 · Vendor Advisory
• 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
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1031243 · Note
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9038 · Note