6.8

CVE-2014-5205: wordpress Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

CVSS: 6.8v2.0MediumModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2014-5205DEBIAN-CVE-2014-5205
Published 18-08-2014Last modified 06-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2014-5205 is a medium (CVSS 6.8) Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in wordpress. EPSS estimates a 1.83% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78.7% of scored vulnerabilities. Fixed in 3.7.4.

Overall risk
28/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
6.8/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.83%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 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
DLA-56-1DSA-3001-1

Timeline

  1. 18-08-2014
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 06-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

wp-includes/pluggable.php in WordPress before 3.9.2 does not use delimiters during concatenation of action values and uid values in CSRF tokens, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass a CSRF protection mechanism via a brute-force attack.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

1.83%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

79%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.83% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
1.83%

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 3.7.4) | ≥ 3.7, ≤ 3.7.3 (fixed in 3.7.4) | ≥ 3.8, ≤ 3.8.3 (fixed in 3.7.4) | ≥ 3.9, ≤ 3.9.1 (fixed in 3.7.4)
  • wordpressEOL≤ 3.9.1 | 3.9.0
Debian1 product
  • wordpress< 3.9.2+dfsg-1
Ubuntu1 product
  • wordpress< 3.8.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1

3 vendors · 4 products

References

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