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ghsa-vhx7-jpm9-345w

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-05-13 01:43

Modified

2022-05-13 01:43

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

WordPress 4.8.2 stores cleartext wp_signups.activation_key values (but stores the analogous wp_users.user_activation_key values as hashes), which might make it easier for remote attackers to hijack unactivated user accounts by leveraging database read access (such as access gained through an unspecified SQL injection vulnerability).

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  "modified": "2022-05-13T01:43:36Z",
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CVE-2017-14990 (GCVE-0-2017-14990)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2017-10-02 17:00

Modified

2024-08-05 19:42

Severity ?

CWE

n/a

Summary

WordPress 4.8.2 stores cleartext wp_signups.activation_key values (but stores the analogous wp_users.user_activation_key values as hashes), which might make it easier for remote attackers to hijack unactivated user accounts by leveraging database read access (such as access gained through an unspecified SQL injection vulnerability).

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3997	vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN
	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039554	vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
	https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/38474	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	n/a	Version: n/a

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