National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-6013

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-0126

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00098.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-0103

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00079.html

External Source: XF

Name: wordpress-password-weak-security(38578)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/38578

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-3941

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3941

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1018980

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018980

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20071119 Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/483927/100/0/threaded

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-auth.txt

Hyperlink:http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-auth.txt

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5367

Hyperlink:http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5367

External Source: SREASON

Name: 3375

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3375

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 28310

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/28310

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 27714

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27714

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 40801

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/40801

External Source: FULLDISC

Name: 20071119 Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-November/058576.html