CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2008-1930

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.

7.5 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 10 / Impact : 6.4

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

References
Link Resource
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-integrity.txt
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/ Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28935 Patch
http://secunia.com/advisories/29965
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019923
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1372/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42027
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491356/100/0/threaded
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2008-04-28 08:05

Updated : 2018-10-11 08:38

NVD link : CVE-2008-1930

Mitre link : CVE-2008-1930

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-287