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Title : WordPress Cookie Integrity Protection Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Advisory ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1372
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1930 - CVE-2008-2068
Rated as : High Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-28

Advisory Details

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A vulnerability has been identified in WordPress, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise an affected web site. This issue is caused by an error in the MAC calculation procedure when handling the "USERNAME" and "EXPIRY_TIME" parameters contained in the authentication cookie, which could be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized administrative access (and execute arbitrary PHP code) by creating an account with a specially crafted username [...]

Affected Products

WordPress versions prior to 2.5.1

Credits

Vulnerabilities reported by Steven J. Murdoch and Alex Concha.

ChangeLog

2008-04-28 : Initial release

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