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CVE-2008-1930
N/ADescription
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 "admin" to obtain administrator privileges, aka a "cryptographic splicing" issue. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-6013.
CVE Details
CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A
Published4/28/2008
Last Modified4/23/2026
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0
Affected Products
wordpress:wordpress
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-287
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/29965(cve@mitre.org)
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491356/100/0/threaded(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28935(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019923(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1372/references(cve@mitre.org)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42027(cve@mitre.org)
http://secunia.com/advisories/29965(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-integrity.txt(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491356/100/0/threaded(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28935(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019923(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1372/references(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42027(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
IOC Correlations
No correlations recorded
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