CVE-2008-1930

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

9.1

MODERATE

Vector

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

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

7.705

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Update wordpress 2.5 to latest version	Windows

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234