CVE-2014-9039

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% 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-254

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.

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://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/30431
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/30431
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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