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CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1930
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2008-1930

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.

CVE Status:
Candidate

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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