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WEB APPLICATION VULNERABILITIES Standard & Premium

WordPress 2.5 Cookie Integrity Protection Unauthorized Access Vulnerability (0.6.2 - 2.5)

Description

WordPress is prone to a vulnerability that allows an attacker to gain unauthorized access to the affected application. An attacker can exploit this issue to gain administrative access to the application, which can result in total compromise of the affected application. WordPress versions prior to 2.5.1 are vulnerable.

Remediation

Update to WordPress version 2.5.1 or latest

References

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-integrity.txt

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491356

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5367

http://secunia.com/advisories/29965/

Related Vulnerabilities

OpenSSL Observable Discrepancy Vulnerability (CVE-2022-4304)

Piwigo Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Vulnerability (CVE-2024-46606)

MySQL CVE-2016-0505 Vulnerability (CVE-2016-0505)

Nginx Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability (CVE-2009-2629)

MySQL CVE-2024-20973 Vulnerability (CVE-2024-20973)

Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2008-1930 CWE-287 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update

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