01 Record
CVE-2014-6412
WordPress before 4.4 makes it easier for remote attackers to predict password-recovery tokens via a brute-force approach.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
WordPress before 4.4 makes it easier for remote attackers to predict password-recovery tokens via a brute-force approach.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 4.60% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 91.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-04-12 21:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 12:17Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2014-09-15
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-640Weak Password Recovery Mechanism for Forgotten PasswordBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- f9290f8e0616b980480f9f370ef39009aedb27d1e508342f7d7b2b10faaab3cd
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130380/WordPress-Failed-Randomness.html
- core.trac.wordpress.orghttps://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/28633
- seclists.org20150212 Followup on CVE-2014-6412http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Feb/53
- www.securityfocus.com72589http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72589
- seclists.org20150211 CVE-2014-6412 - WordPress (all versions) lacks CSPRNGhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Feb/42
- www.securitytracker.com1031749http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031749
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1192474