CVE-2014-9037

medium
Published 2014-11-25 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

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 might allow remote attackers to obtain access to an account idle since 2008 by leveraging an improper PHP dynamic type comparison for an MD5 hash.

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-2014-9037

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.0.1+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.0.1+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.0.1+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed4.0.1+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.0.1+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
wordpresswordpress{"endIncluding":"3.7.4"}
wordpresswordpress3.8
wordpresswordpress3.8.1
wordpresswordpress3.8.2
wordpresswordpress3.8.3
wordpresswordpress3.8.4
wordpresswordpress3.9
wordpresswordpress3.9.1
wordpresswordpress3.9.2
wordpresswordpress4.0

References

CWEs

CWE-310

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