CVE-2007-6013 (GCVE-0-2007-6013)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-11-19 21:00
Modified
2024-08-07 15:54
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Wordpress 1.5 through 2.3.1 uses cookie values based on the MD5 hash of a password MD5 hash, which allows attackers to bypass authentication by obtaining the MD5 hash from the user database, then generating the authentication cookie from that hash.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-November/058576.htmlBroken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://osvdb.org/40801Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/27714Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/28310Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://securityreason.com/securityalert/3375Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5367Exploit, Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-auth.txtThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483927/100/0/threadedBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018980Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3941Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38578Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00079.htmlMailing List
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00098.htmlMailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-November/058576.htmlBroken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/40801Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/27714Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/28310Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3375Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5367Exploit, Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-auth.txtThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483927/100/0/threadedBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018980Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3941Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38578Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00079.htmlMailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00098.htmlMailing List
Impacted products
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