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WordPress Insecure Password Generation Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA31737
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Release Date:
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2008-09-12
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Last Update:
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2008-09-29
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Popularity:
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3,064 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Brute force
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | WordPress 2.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2008-4106
CVE-2008-4107
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Description:
Stefan Esser has reported a vulnerability in WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to guess automatically generated passwords.
The vulnerability is caused due to WordPress using a weak pseudo random number generator to generate passwords while leaking it's state information to an attacker. In combination with other attacks this can e.g. be exploited to recover the administrator's automatically generated password.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.6.2.
Solution:
Update to version 2.6.2.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Stefan Esser
Changelog:
2008-09-29: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://www.sektioneins.de/advisories/SE-2008-05.txt
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-262/
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