CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-4106

5.1 MEDIUM Published 2008-09-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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