FKIE_CVE-2008-4106
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-09-18 17:59 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:57
Severity
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress | wordpress | * | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 0.71-gold | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 1.0-platinum | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 1.0.1-miles | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 1.0.2-blakey | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 1.2-delta | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 1.2-mingus | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 1.2.1 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 1.2.2 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 1.5-strayhorn | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 1.5.1.1 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 1.5.1.2 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 1.5.1.3 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 1.5.2 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.0 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.0.1 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.0.4 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.0.5 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.0.6 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.0.7 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.0.9 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.0.10 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.0.11 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.1 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.1.1 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.1.2 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.1.3 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.2 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.2.1 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.2.2 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.2.3 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.5 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.5.1 | |
| wordpress | wordpress | 2.6 |
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