4.3

CVE-2014-0165: wordpress

CVSS: 4.3v3.1MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2014-0165DEBIAN-CVE-2014-0165
Published 09-04-2014Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2014-0165 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in wordpress. EPSS estimates a 2.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of scored vulnerabilities. Fixed in 3.7.2.

Overall risk
18/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
4.3/10
010
Medium · v3.1 (wordfence)
EPSS score
2.43%
0%100%
Low · +0.07 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2
DSA-2901-1MGASA-2014-0254

Timeline

  1. 09-04-2014
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

WordPress before 3.7.2 and 3.8.x before 3.8.2 allows remote authenticated users to publish posts by leveraging the Contributor role, related to wp-admin/includes/post.php and wp-admin/includes/class-wp-posts-list-table.php.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

2.43%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

84%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.07 pp

From 2.37% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
2.43%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wordpress2 products
  • wordpress< 3.7 (fixed in 3.7.2) | ≥ 3.7, ≤ 3.7.1 (fixed in 3.7.2) | ≥ 3.8, ≤ 3.8.1 (fixed in 3.7.2)
  • wordpressEOL≤ 3.7.1 | 0.71 | 1.0 | 1.0.1 | 1.0.2 | 1.1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2.1 | 1.2.2 | 1.2.3 | 1.2.4 | 1.2.5 | 1.2.5:a | 1.3 | 1.3.2 | 1.3.3 | 1.5 | 1.5.1 | 1.5.1.1 | 1.5.1.2 | 1.5.1.3 | 1.5.2 | 1.6.2 | 2.0 | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 2.0.4 | 2.0.5 | 2.0.6 | 2.0.7 | 2.0.8 | 2.0.9 | 2.0.10 | 2.0.11 | 2.1 | 2.1.1 | 2.1.2 | 2.1.3 | 2.2 | 2.2.1 | 2.2.2 | 2.2.3 | 2.3 | 2.3.1 | 2.3.2 | 2.3.3 | 2.5 | 2.5.1 | 2.6 | 2.6.1 | 2.6.2 | 2.6.3 | 2.6.5 | 2.7 | 2.7.1 | 2.8 | 2.8.1 | 2.8.2 | 2.8.3 | 2.8.4 | 2.8.4:a | 2.8.5 | 2.8.5.1 | 2.8.5.2 | 2.8.6 | 2.9 | 2.9.1 | 2.9.1.1 | 2.9.2 | 3.0 | 3.0.1 | 3.0.2 | 3.0.3 | 3.0.4 | 3.0.5 | 3.0.6 | 3.1 | 3.1.1 | 3.1.2 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.4 | 3.2 | 3.2:beta1 | 3.2.1 | 3.3 | 3.3.1 | 3.3.2 | 3.3.3 | 3.4.0 | 3.4.1 | 3.4.2 | 3.5.0 | 3.5.1 | 3.6 | 3.6.1 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.8.1
Debian1 product
  • wordpress< 3.8.2+dfsg-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • wordpress< 3.8.2+dfsg-1

3 vendors · 4 products

References

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