CVE-2007-6013
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · CWE-327
9.8CVSS CRITICAL
Summary
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 & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27714Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28310Advisory
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-November/058576.html
- http://osvdb.org/40801
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3375
- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-auth.txtAdvisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483927/100/0/threadedAdvisory
- http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5367Exploit