CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-6412
8.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-04-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-640
Description
WordPress before 4.4 makes it easier for remote attackers to predict password-recovery tokens via a brute-force approach.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (< 4.4.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-640 Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130380/WordPress-Failed-Randomness.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Feb/42 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Feb/53 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72589 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031749 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192474 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28633 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130380/WordPress-Failed-Randomness.html Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Feb/42 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Feb/53 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72589 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031749 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192474 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28633 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory