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medium 5.0

CVE-2014-9034 json

wp-includes/class-phpass.php in 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 allows remote attacker…

published 2014-11-25 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-8862

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
83.2%
EPSS 83.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.6%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

wp-includes/class-phpass.php in 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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password that is improperly handled during hashing, a similar issue to CVE-2014-9016.

Patch / fix

  • wordpress Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.0.1+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9034

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-2014-9034 updated cvss 5.8

wordpress: security flaws fixed in the 4.0.1 release

  • 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

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit auxiliary/dos/http/wordpress_long_password_dos)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

83.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-19 Data Processing Errors
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.