CVE-2008-4106
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 18, 2008
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Sep 15, 2008
Description
WordPress before 2.6.2 does not properly handle MySQL warnings about insertion of username strings that exceed the maximum column width of the user_login column, and does not properly handle space characters when comparing usernames, which allows remote attackers to change an arbitrary user's password to a random value by registering a similar username and then requesting a password reset, related to a "SQL column truncation vulnerability." NOTE: the attacker can discover the random password by also exploiting CVE-2008-4107.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- 31737third-party-advisory
- 6421exploit
- [oss-security] 20080916 Re: CVE request: wordpress < 2.6.2mailing-list
- http://www.suspekt.org/2008/08/18/mysql-and-sql-column-truncation-vulnerabilities/
- ADV-2008-2553vdb-entry
- 6397exploit
- DSA-1871vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20080911 CVE request: wordpress < 2.6.2mailing-list
- http://www.sektioneins.de/advisories/SE-2008-05.txt
- 4272third-party-advisory
- 31068vdb-entry
- 31870third-party-advisory
- 20080911 Advisory 05/2008: Wordpress user_login Column SQL Truncation Vulnerabilitymailing-list
- 1020869vdb-entry
- FEDORA-2008-7902vendor-advisory
- FEDORA-2008-7760vendor-advisory
- http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-262/
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