WordPress Core < 4.4 - Brute Force Password Recovery Tokens

Weak Encoding for Password
CVE CVE-2014-6412
CVSS High (7.5)
Publicly Published February 12, 2015
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Description

WordPress before 4.4 makes it easier for remote attackers to predict password-recovery tokens via a brute-force approach.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Core
Software Slug wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 4.4
Patched Version
  • 4.4
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