CVE-2008-1930
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
85.7%
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 โadminโ to obtain administrator privileges, aka a โcryptographic splicingโ issue. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-6013.
Affected configurations
References
secunia.com/advisories/29965
wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-integrity.txt
www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491356/100/0/threaded
www.securityfocus.com/bid/28935
www.securitytracker.com/id?1019923
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1372/references
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42027
Related
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
85.7%