CVEvulnerability

CVE-2007-6013

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2007-11-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-11-19
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-327

Description

Wordpress 1.5 through 2.3.1 uses cookie values based on the MD5 hash of a password MD5 hash, which allows attackers to bypass authentication by obtaining the MD5 hash from the user database, then generating the authentication cookie from that hash.

Affected configurations

• wordpress wordpress (>= 1.5 <= 2.3.1) • fedoraproject fedora 7 • fedoraproject fedora 8

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-327 Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-327 Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm weakness

References