CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-5204
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2014-08-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-352
Description
wp-includes/pluggable.php in WordPress before 3.9.2 rejects invalid CSRF nonces with a different timing depending on which characters in the nonce are incorrect, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass a CSRF protection mechanism via a brute-force attack.
Affected configurations
• debian debian linux 7.0
• wordpress wordpress (<= 3.9.1)
• wordpress wordpress 3.9.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery weakness
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/13/3 openwall.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001 www.debian.org
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29384 core.trac.wordpress.org
- https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/08/13/3 openwall.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3001 www.debian.org
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/29384 core.trac.wordpress.org
- https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/ Patch, Vendor Advisory