WordPress Core < 3.9.2 - Brute Force of Cross-Site Request Forgery Tokens

2014-08-06 00:00

David Tomaschik

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 3.7.4

Affected CoreWordPress 3.9

Affected Version3.7 – 3.9.1 · 4 branches

CVSS6.5Medium

CVECVE-2014-5205

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Vulnerability Overview

wp-includes/pluggable.php in WordPress before 3.9.2 does not use delimiters during concatenation of action values and uid values in CSRF tokens, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass a CSRF protection mechanism via a brute-force attack.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to one of the following versions, or a newer patched version: 3.7.4, 3.8.4, 3.9.2 --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-862 (Missing Authorization) The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-5205 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/ad943111-24c1-4ff9-b34a-aa4e1ee8ee75

CVSS Vector

6.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityLow
IntegrityLow
AvailabilityNone

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