CVE-2014-5204
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.8
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Mixed 6 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 3.9.2+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 3.9.2+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 3.9.2+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 3.9.2+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 3.9.2+dfsg-1 |
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
References
CWEs
CWE-352
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.