Wordpress Core < 4.0.1 - Hash Collision

Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort

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

CVE	CVE-2014-9037
CVSS	High (8.1)
Publicly Published	November 20, 2014
Last Updated	January 22, 2024
Researcher	David Anderson

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.

References

www.wordfence.com

1 affected software package

Software Type	Core
Software Slug	wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched?	Yes
Affected Version	<= 3.7 3.7 - 3.7.4 3.8 - 3.8.4 3.9 - 3.9.2 4.0 - 4.0
Patched Version	3.7.5 3.8.5 3.9.3 4.0.1

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