CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-4106
5.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-09-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.1 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
WordPress before 2.6.2 does not properly handle MySQL warnings about insertion of username strings that exceed the maximum column width of the user_login column, and does not properly handle space characters when comparing usernames, which allows remote attackers to change an arbitrary user's password to a random value by registering a similar username and then requesting a password reset, related to a "SQL column truncation vulnerability." NOTE: the attacker can discover the random password by also exploiting CVE-2008-4107.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 2.6.1)
• wordpress wordpress 0.71-gold
• wordpress wordpress 1.0-platinum
• wordpress wordpress 1.0.1-miles
• wordpress wordpress 1.0.2-blakey
• wordpress wordpress 1.2-delta
• wordpress wordpress 1.2-mingus
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.5-strayhorn
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.3
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.0
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.4
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.5
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.6
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.7
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.9
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.10
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.11
• wordpress wordpress 2.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.1.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.1.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.1.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.2.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.2.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.2.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.5
• wordpress wordpress 2.5.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.6
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122152830017099&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31737 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31870 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4272 securityreason.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020869 securitytracker.com
- http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-262/ Patch
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/11/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496287/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31068 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.sektioneins.de/advisories/SE-2008-05.txt www.sektioneins.de
- http://www.suspekt.org/2008/08/18/mysql-and-sql-column-truncation-vulnerabilities/ www.suspekt.org
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2553 www.vupen.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6397 www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6421 www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00607.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00629.html www.redhat.com
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122152830017099&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31737 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31870 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4272 securityreason.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020869 securitytracker.com
- http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-262/ Patch
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 www.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/11/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496287/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31068 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.sektioneins.de/advisories/SE-2008-05.txt www.sektioneins.de
- http://www.suspekt.org/2008/08/18/mysql-and-sql-column-truncation-vulnerabilities/ www.suspekt.org
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2553 www.vupen.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6397 www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6421 www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00607.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00629.html www.redhat.com