CVE-2014-9034: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 82.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

wp-includes/class-phpass.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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long password that is improperly handled during hashing, a similar issue to CVE-2014-9016.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 3.7.4; version 3.8 only; version 3.8.1 only; version 3.8.2 only; version 3.8.3 only; version 3.8.4 only; …

Published 2014-11-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.