ghsa-m86r-5c2c-w6rq
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-01 23:45
Modified
2025-04-09 03:54
Details

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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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2008-1930"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-287"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2008-04-28T20:05:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-m86r-5c2c-w6rq",
  "modified": "2025-04-09T03:54:05Z",
  "published": "2022-05-01T23:45:02Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1930"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42027"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/29965"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-integrity.txt"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491356/100/0/threaded"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28935"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019923"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1372/references"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": []
}


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