{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "cve@mitre.org", "ID": "CVE-2008-1930", "STATE": "PUBLIC" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "n/a", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "n/a" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "n/a" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "The cookie authentication method in WordPress 2.5 relies on a hash of a concatenated string containing USERNAME and EXPIRY_TIME, which allows remote attackers to forge cookies by registering a username that results in the same concatenated string, as demonstrated by registering usernames beginning with \"admin\" to obtain administrator privileges, aka a \"cryptographic splicing\" issue. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-6013." } ] }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "n/a" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "28935", "refsource": "BID", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28935" }, { "name": "wordpress-cookie-security-bypass(42027)", "refsource": "XF", "url": "https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42027" }, { "name": "ADV-2008-1372", "refsource": "VUPEN", "url": "http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1372/references" }, { "name": "http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-integrity.txt", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-integrity.txt" }, { "name": "http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/" }, { "name": "1019923", "refsource": "SECTRACK", "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019923" }, { "name": "29965", "refsource": "SECUNIA", "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/29965" }, { "name": "20080425 Wordpress 2.5 Cookie Integrity Protection Vulnerability", "refsource": "BUGTRAQ", "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491356/100/0/threaded" } ] } }