CVE-2008-1930 describes a cryptographic splicing vulnerability in WordPress 2.5's cookie authentication. Attackers could forge authentication cookies by registering a username that, when concatenated with an expiry time, produced the same hash as a legitimate user, potentially leading to unauthorized access, including administrator privileges. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and potential for partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the EPSS score is low, suggesting limited real-world exploitation, there is no public exploit code available, nor is it listed on the KEV catalog, and it has received no community or media attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.