Title : WordPress Cookie Integrity Protection Privilege Escalation Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1372 CVE ID : CVE-2008-1930 - CVE-2008-2068
Rated as : High Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2008-04-28
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in WordPress, which could be exploited by attackers to compromise an affected web site. This issue is caused by an error in the MAC calculation procedure when handling the "USERNAME" and "EXPIRY_TIME" parameters contained in the authentication cookie, which could be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized administrative access (and execute arbitrary PHP code) by creating an account with a specially crafted username.
Note: An unspecified cross site scripting issue has also been reported.
