Security Advisory

CVE-2007-6013

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2007-11-19 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 15:54:25
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.