cve/2008/CVE-2008-4106.md

CVE-2008-4106

Description

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.

POC

Reference

• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4272
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6397
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6421

Github

No PoCs found on GitHub currently.