CVE-2014-9034 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting WordPress versions before 3.7.5, 3.8.5, 3.9.3, and 4.0.1. It allows remote attackers to cause high CPU consumption by submitting a long password during hashing, similar to CVE-2014-9016. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and potential for partial denial of service. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, and it has received some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 3.7.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.8.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.