CVE-2014-9039

wp-login.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 might allow remote attackers to reset passwords by leveraging access to an e-mail account that received a password-reset message.

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-2014-9039 is rated Moderate Risk (45.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.68%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-9039

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 2025-04-05 1.83% 1.68% -0.15%
2 2025-03-30 12.28% 1.83% -10.45%
3 2025-03-29 — 12.28% —

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-9039

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N 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:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-9039

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-9039

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2014-9039 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-2014-9039
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-9039 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-2014-9039

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-9039

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-9039

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