PT-2018-4284 · WordPress · Wordpress

Sarciszewski · Published 2018-04-12 · Updated 2018-05-17 · CVE-2014-6412

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 4.4

Description The issue makes it easier for remote attackers to predict password-recovery tokens via a brute-force approach.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.4, update to version 4.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-640

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-6412

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-6412 · Security Note
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28633 · Vendor Advisory
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130380/WordPress-Failed-Randomness.html · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1031749 · Note
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Feb/42 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-6412 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192474 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/72589 · Note
• http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Feb/53 · Note