CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1930
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-04-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-287
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress 2.5
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29965 secunia.com
- http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/ Patch
- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-integrity.txt www.cl.cam.ac.uk
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491356/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28935 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019923 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1372/references www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42027 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29965 secunia.com
- http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/ Patch
- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-integrity.txt www.cl.cam.ac.uk
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491356/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28935 Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019923 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1372/references www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42027 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com