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Fencer Intel
high 8.1

CVE-2014-6412 json

WordPress before 4.4 makes it easier for remote attackers to predict password-recovery tokens via a brute-force approach.

published 2018-04-12 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-6292

cvss
8.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.6%
EPSS 4.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

WordPress before 4.4 makes it easier for remote attackers to predict password-recovery tokens via a brute-force approach.

Patch / fix

  • wordpress wordpress 4.4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-6412 updated cvss 5.4

wordpress: lack of CSPRNG might lead to information disclosure

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-640 Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten Password
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.