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CVE-2014-0165

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0165 is a privilege escalation vulnerability affecting WordPress versions prior to 3.7.2 and 3.8.2. It allows authenticated users with the Contributor role to bypass intended restrictions and publish posts, rather than just submitting them for review. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a medium severity, and requires authentication for exploitation with a low attack complexity, potentially leading to unauthorized content publication. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.71CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.71:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0237 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 21,957 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

codex.wordpress.org / Version_3.7.2
Vendor Advisory
codex.wordpress.org / Version_3.8.2
Vendor Advisory
core.trac.wordpress.org / changeset/27976
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
debian.org / security/2014/dsa-2901