CVE-2014-9034

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 82.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-11-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-19

Description

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.

Affected products

WordPress: through 3.7.4; 3.8, 3.8.1, 3.8.2, 3.8.3, 3.8.4, 3.9 (+3)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/30467
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/12
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3085
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:233
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031243
https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/30467
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/12
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3085
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:233

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