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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1930 |
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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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CVE Status: Candidate |
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References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/42027 ST 1019923 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29965 MISC http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-integrity.txt CONFIRM http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/ BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/491356/100/0/threaded BID 28935 |
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