Security Advisory

CVE-2008-1930

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2008-04-28 18:21:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 08:41:00

Assigner mitre

CVSS score not scored

State 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.

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