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.
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-11-19T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T15:54:25.756Z

Reserved: 2007-11-19T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2007-6013

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-11-19T21:46:00.000

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:39:10.730

Link: CVE-2007-6013

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2007-11-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2007-6013 - Bugzilla