CVE-2014-9037

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-11-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-310

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
Mageia Project Mageia: 3, 4
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://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://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/

Get alerted when CVE-2014-9037 or the next vulnerability affects your stack