Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Apr 28, 2008· Updated Apr 23, 2026
CVE-2008-1930
CVE-2008-1930
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 products
1- cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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References
8- wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/nvdPatch
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/28935nvdPatch
- secunia.com/advisories/29965nvd
- www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-integrity.txtnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491356/100/0/threadednvd
- www.securitytracker.com/idnvd
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1372/referencesnvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42027nvd
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