CVE-2014-9037
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.8
Description
WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, 3.9.x before 3.9.3, and 4.x before 4.0.1 might allow remote attackers to obtain access to an account idle since 2008 by leveraging an improper PHP dynamic type comparison for an MD5 hash.
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 7 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 4.0.1+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 4.0.1+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 4.0.1+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 4.0.1+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 4.0.1+dfsg-1 |
| 8.0 | Affected | — |
| 7.0 | Affected | — |
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/12
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3085
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:233
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031243
- https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9037
CWEs
CWE-310
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.