wordpress: password vulnerability
| Package(s): | wordpress |
CVE #(s): | CVE-2008-4106
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| Created: | August 27, 2009 |
Updated: | September 2, 2009 |
| Description: |
From the National Vulnerability Database
entry:
"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." " |
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