First published: Mon Apr 28 2008(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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WordPress WordPress | =2.5 |
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