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CVE-2014-5205
wp-includes/pluggable.php in WordPress before 3.9.2 does not use delimiters during concatenation of action values and uid values in CSRF…
Medium6.8EPSS 1.8%
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- DSA-3001 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29408 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20140813 Re: WordPress 3.9.2 release - needs CVE's (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
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- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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