CVE-2014-5205

WordPress Core < 3.9.2 - Brute Force of Cross-Site Request Forgery Tokens

Severity Score

6.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

wp-includes/pluggable.php in WordPress before 3.9.2 does not use delimiters during concatenation of action values and uid values in CSRF tokens, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass a CSRF protection mechanism via a brute-force attack.

wp-includes/pluggable.php en WordPress anterior a 3.9.2 no utiliza delimitadores durante la concatenación de los valores de acción y los valores uid en los tokens CSRF, lo que facilita a aqtacantes remotos evadir un mecanismo de protección CSRF a través de un ataque de fuerza bruta.

*Credits: David Tomaschik

CVSS Scores

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

Low

Integrity

Low

Availability

None

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Medium

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Partial

Integrity

Partial

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2014-08-06 CVE Published
2014-08-13 CVE Reserved
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-352: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CWE-862: Missing Authorization

CAPEC

References (4)

URL	Tag	Source
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/13/3	Mailing List
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29408	X_refsource_confirm

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2	2014-11-14

URL	Date	SRC
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001	2014-11-14

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Wordpress Search vendor "Wordpress"		Wordpress Search vendor "Wordpress" for product "Wordpress"				<= 3.9.1 Search vendor "Wordpress" for product "Wordpress" and version " <= 3.9.1"		-		Affected
Wordpress Search vendor "Wordpress"		Wordpress Search vendor "Wordpress" for product "Wordpress"				3.9.0 Search vendor "Wordpress" for product "Wordpress" and version "3.9.0"		-		Affected