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.
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2008-04-28T18:21:00
Updated: 2018-10-11T19:57:01
Reserved: 2008-04-23T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2008-1930
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2008-04-28T20:05:00.000
Modified: 2018-10-11T20:38:01.700
Link: CVE-2008-1930
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