CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-6707

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-10-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-10-19
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-326

Description

WordPress through 4.8.2 uses a weak MD5-based password hashing algorithm, which makes it easier for attackers to determine cleartext values by leveraging access to the hash values. NOTE: the approach to changing this may not be fully compatible with certain use cases, such as migration of a WordPress site from a web host that uses a recent PHP version to a different web host that uses PHP 5.2. These use cases are plausible (but very unlikely) based on statistics showing widespread deployment of WordPress with obsolete PHP versions.

Affected configurations

• wordpress wordpress (<= 4.8.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-326 Inadequate Encryption Strength weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-328 Use of Weak Hash weakness

References