CVE-2008-1930
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-1930
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2008-1930.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2008-1930
- Published
- 2008-04-28T20:05:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-02-21T05:00:04Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
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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- http://secunia.com/advisories/29965
- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-integrity.txt
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1372/references
- http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28935
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491356/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019923
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42027
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-1930
Affected packages
Debian:11 / wordpress
Package
- Name
- wordpress
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/wordpress?arch=source
Debian:12 / wordpress
Package
- Name
- wordpress
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/wordpress?arch=source
Debian:13 / wordpress
Package
- Name
- wordpress
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/wordpress?arch=source