CVE-2014-5205

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Published 2014-08-18 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-5205

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://wordpress.org/news/2014/08/wordpress-3-9-2/

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed3.9.2+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.9.2+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed3.9.2+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed3.9.2+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed3.9.2+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
wordpress wordpresswordpress{"endIncluding":"3.9.1"}
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.9.0

References

CWEs

CWE-352

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.