CVE - CVE-2008-1930

CVE-ID
CVE-2008-1930	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
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BID:28935 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28935 BUGTRAQ:20080425 Wordpress 2.5 Cookie Integrity Protection Vulnerability URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491356/100/0/threaded CONFIRM:http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/ MISC:http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-integrity.txt SECTRACK:1019923 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019923 SECUNIA:29965 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/29965 VUPEN:ADV-2008-1372 URL:~~http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1372/references~~ (Obsolete source) XF:wordpress-cookie-security-bypass(42027) URL:https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42027
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20080423	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20080423)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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