CVE-2008-1930

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.

CVSS v2.0

7.5 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

5.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 92th percentile

Nuclei

high

Published

2008-04-28

Updated

2024-08-07

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• HeisenbergH4X/CVE-2008-1930

Nuclei templates (1)

• topscoder/nuclei-wordfence-cve/blob/main/nuclei-templates/2008/CVE-2008-1930-wordpress-0a…

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2008-1921
• CVE-2008-1933
• CVE-2008-1920
• CVE-2008-1934
• CVE-2008-1919
• CVE-2008-1935