CVE-2008-1930
EPSS 7.5%Published: 4/28/2008Modified: 5/27/2026
Description
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/wordpressfrom 0, < 2.5.1-1