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CVE-2008-1930

Published: Apr 28, 2008

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The cookie authentication method in WordPress 2.5 relies on a hash of a concatenated string containing USERNAME and EXPIRY_TIME, which allows remote attackers to forge cookies by registering a username that results in the same concatenated string, as demonstrated by registering usernames beginning with "admin" to obtain administrator privileges, aka a "cryptographic splicing" issue. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-6013.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vdb-entry

x_refsource_BID

wordpress-cookie-security-bypass(42027)

vdb-entry

x_refsource_XF

vdb-entry

x_refsource_VUPEN

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-integrity.txt

x_refsource_MISC

http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vdb-entry

x_refsource_SECTRACK

third-party-advisory

x_refsource_SECUNIA

20080425 Wordpress 2.5 Cookie Integrity Protection Vulnerability

mailing-list

x_refsource_BUGTRAQ

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