CVE-2008-4106

Description

WordPress before 2.6.2 does not properly handle MySQL warnings about insertion of username strings that exceed the maximum column width of the user_login column, and does not properly handle space characters when comparing usernames, which allows remote attackers to change an arbitrary users password to a random value by registering a similar username and then requesting a password reset, related to a SQL column truncation vulnerability. NOTE: the attacker can discover the random password by also exploiting CVE-2008-4107.

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

14.591

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Update wordpress 2.6.1 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