CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-0166
6.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-04-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
The wp_validate_auth_cookie function in wp-includes/pluggable.php in WordPress before 3.7.2 and 3.8.x before 3.8.2 does not properly determine the validity of authentication cookies, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access via a forged cookie.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 3.7.1)
• wordpress wordpress 0.71
• wordpress wordpress 1.0
• wordpress wordpress 1.0.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.0.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.1.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.3
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.4
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.5
• wordpress wordpress 1.3
• wordpress wordpress 1.3.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.3.3
• wordpress wordpress 1.5
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.3
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.6.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.0
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.4
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.5
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.6
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.7
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.8
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.9
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.10
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.11
• wordpress wordpress 2.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.1.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.1.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.1.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.2.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.2.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.2.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.3.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.3.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.3.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.5
• wordpress wordpress 2.5.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.6
• wordpress wordpress 2.6.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.6.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.6.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.6.5
• wordpress wordpress 2.7
• wordpress wordpress 2.7.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.8
• wordpress wordpress 2.8.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.8.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.8.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.8.4
• wordpress wordpress 2.8.5
… and 35 more
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.7.2 Vendor Advisory
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.8.2 Vendor Advisory
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/28054 core.trac.wordpress.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2901 www.debian.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085858 bugzilla.redhat.com
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.7.2 Vendor Advisory
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.8.2 Vendor Advisory
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/28054 core.trac.wordpress.org
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2901 www.debian.org
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1085858 bugzilla.redhat.com