CVE-2014-5205
WordPress < 3.9.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery via Brute-Force Token Bypass
Title source: llmDescription
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/
Product x_refsource_confirm
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29408
Mailing List mailing-list
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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