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WordPress User Account Enumeration Weakness
Secunia Advisory: SA23621
Release Date: 2007-01-05
Last Update: 2007-05-25
Popularity: 14,332 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Exposure of system information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:Wordpress 1.x
WordPress 2.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A weakness has been discovered in WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to identify valid user accounts.

Different error messages are returned depending on whether an unsuccessful login attempt is performed with a valid or invalid username.

Also, the product does not block people after a certain amount of failed login attempts.

The weakness is confirmed in version 2.0.5 and reported in version 1.5. Other versions may also be affected.

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