CVE-2014-5205: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

wp-includes/pluggable.php in WordPress before 3.9.2 does not use delimiters during concatenation of action values and uid values in CSRF tokens, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass a CSRF protection mechanism via a brute-force attack.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 3.9.1; version 3.9.0 only

Published 2014-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.