CVE-2014-9037

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.

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-2014-9037 is rated Moderate Risk (51.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.62%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-9037

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 2025-03-30 32.25% 2.62% -29.63%
2 2025-03-29 2.62% 32.25% +29.63%
3 2025-03-24 — 2.62% —

Full EPSS history (8 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-9037

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-9037

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-9037

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2014-9037 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-2014-9037
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-9037 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-2014-9037

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-9037

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mageia_project mageia 3 cpe:2.3:o:mageia_project:mageia:3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mageia_project mageia 4 cpe:2.3:o:mageia_project:mageia:4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 8.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-9037

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