fkie_cve-2008-1930
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2008-04-28 20:05
Modified
2025-04-09 00:30
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
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"lastModified": "2025-04-09T00:30:58.490",
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