CVE-2014-9039

medium
Published 2014-11-25 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

wp-login.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 might allow remote attackers to reset passwords by leveraging access to an e-mail account that received a password-reset message.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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

References

CWEs

CWE-254

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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