CVE-2014-9034

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.

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

82.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile

Nuclei

medium

Published

2014-11-25

Updated

2024-08-06

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• c0r3dump3d/wp_drupal_timing_attack13★ · 2014-12-27

Nuclei templates (1)

• topscoder/nuclei-wordfence-cve/blob/main/nuclei-templates/2014/CVE-2014-9034-wordpress-43…

ExploitDB entries (2)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35414
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/35413

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2014-9016
• CVE-2014-9033
• CVE-2014-9035
• CVE-2014-9032
• CVE-2014-9036
• CVE-2014-9031