ghsa-gg7f-mrmc-j93p
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-02 00:06
Modified
2025-04-09 03:58
Details

WordPress before 2.6.2 does not properly handle MySQL warnings about insertion of username strings that exceed the maximum column width of the user_login column, and does not properly handle space characters when comparing usernames, which allows remote attackers to change an arbitrary user's password to a random value by registering a similar username and then requesting a password reset, related to a "SQL column truncation vulnerability." NOTE: the attacker can discover the random password by also exploiting CVE-2008-4107.

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2008-4106"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-20"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2008-09-18T17:59:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "WordPress before 2.6.2 does not properly handle MySQL warnings about insertion of username strings that exceed the maximum column width of the user_login column, and does not properly handle space characters when comparing usernames, which allows remote attackers to change an arbitrary user\u0027s password to a random value by registering a similar username and then requesting a password reset, related to a \"SQL column truncation vulnerability.\" NOTE: the attacker can discover the random password by also exploiting CVE-2008-4107.",
  "id": "GHSA-gg7f-mrmc-j93p",
  "modified": "2025-04-09T03:58:29Z",
  "published": "2022-05-02T00:06:50Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4106"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6397"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6421"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00607.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00629.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://marc.info/?l=oss-security\u0026m=122152830017099\u0026w=2"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/31737"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/31870"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4272"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://securitytracker.com/id?1020869"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-262"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/11/6"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496287/100/0/threaded"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31068"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.sektioneins.de/advisories/SE-2008-05.txt"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.suspekt.org/2008/08/18/mysql-and-sql-column-truncation-vulnerabilities"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2553"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": []
}


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