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WordPress Cookies Security Bypass Weakness
Secunia Advisory: SA27714
Release Date: 2007-11-21
Popularity: 8,991 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: Security Bypass
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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Advisory Content (Page 2 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

Solution:
Grant only trusted users read access to the "users" table.

Restrict access to the "wp-admin" directory (e.g. with ".htaccess").

Provided and/or discovered by:
Steven J. Murdoch

Original Advisory:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-auth.txt

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



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