CVE-2014-9034

Exp

wp-includes/class-phpass.php in 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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password that is improperly handled during hashing, a similar issue to CVE-2014-9016.

Published: 2014-11-25 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-9034 is rated High Exploit Risk (72/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 80.17%, 99th percentile). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +2.26% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-9034

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
35414 exploit_db edb 2014-12-01 Exploit-DB ↗
35413 exploit_db edb 2014-12-01 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-9034

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-05 77.91% 80.17% +2.26%
2 2026-06-04 72.48% 77.91% +5.43%
3 2026-03-04 — 72.48% —

Full EPSS history (47 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-9034

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-9034

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-9034

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2014-9034 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (wordpress), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9034
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-9034 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (wordpress), 14 status rows across 14 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, lucid, precise, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 9, ignored 3, DNE 1, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9034

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-9034

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
wordpress wordpress <= 3.7.4 cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wordpress wordpress 3.8 cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wordpress wordpress 3.8.1 cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wordpress wordpress 3.8.2 cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wordpress wordpress 3.8.3 cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wordpress wordpress 3.8.4 cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wordpress wordpress 3.9 cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wordpress wordpress 3.9.1 cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wordpress wordpress 3.9.2 cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
wordpress wordpress 4.0 cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-9034

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