CVE-2008-4106 (GCVE-0-2008-4106)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-09-18 17:47 – Updated: 2024-08-07 10:00
VLAI
Summary
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 user's 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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4272 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31068 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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http://securitytracker.com/id?1020869 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-262/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2008-09-08 00:00
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