VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2014-9034

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability82.70%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2014-11-25
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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