CVE-2007-6013

CRITICAL

9.8

Description

Wordpress 1.5 through 2.3.1 uses cookie values based on the MD5 hash of a password MD5 hash, which allows attackers to bypass authentication by obtaining the MD5 hash from the user database, then generating the authentication cookie from that hash.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published11/19/2007

Last Modified4/23/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

fedoraproject:fedorawordpress:wordpress

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-327

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-November/058576.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://osvdb.org/40801(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/27714(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/28310(cve@mitre.org)

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3375(cve@mitre.org)

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5367(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-auth.txt(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483927/100/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018980(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3941(cve@mitre.org)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38578(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00079.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00098.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-November/058576.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://osvdb.org/40801(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/27714(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/28310(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3375(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5367(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-auth.txt(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483927/100/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018980(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3941(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38578(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00079.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00098.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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