CVE-2007-6013 (GCVE-0-2007-6013)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-11-19 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 15:54
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosur… mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/advisories/wordpr… x_refsource_MISC
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5367 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3375 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483927/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3941 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://secunia.com/advisories/28310 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018980 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://osvdb.org/40801 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-an… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/27714 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2007-11-19 00:00
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