CVE-2014-5205

WordPress < 3.9.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via Brute-Force Token Bypass

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/13/3

Scores

EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 33.9%

Details

CWE
CWE-352
Status published
Products (2)
wordpress/wordpress 3.9.0
wordpress/wordpress < 3.9.1
Published Aug 18, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026