Vulnerability CVE-2014-9039
Published: 2014-11-25   Modified: 2014-11-26

Description:
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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Wordpress -> Wordpress 
Mageia project -> Mageia 
Debian -> Debian linux 

 References:
https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031243
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:233
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3085
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/12
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/30431
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html
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