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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-November/058576.html ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00098.html ↗
- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-auth.txt ↗
- http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5367 ↗
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3375 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483927/100/0/threaded ↗
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3941 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38578 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28310 ↗
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018980 ↗
- http://osvdb.org/40801 ↗
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00079.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27714 ↗