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CVE-2007-6013

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: November 19, 2007 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:47 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsFedoraWordPress

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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Fedora· Fedora Projectrpm
95%
78
WordPress· WordPressdrupal
95%
1.5 ≤ v ≤ 2.3.1

References (13)

Mailing Listx_refsource_FULLDISCBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-November/058576.html
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDBBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://osvdb.org/40801
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken LinkVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/27714
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIABroken LinkVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/28310
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SREASONBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3375
x_refsource_CONFIRMExploitIssue Tracking
Source: [email protected]
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5367
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-auth.txt
Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQBroken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483927/100/0/threaded

CVSS

9.8CRITICAL[email protected]
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-327

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