Denial of Service Vulnerability in WordPress Password Hashing

Denial of Service Vulnerability in WordPress Password Hashing

CVE-2014-9034 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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