48022 : WordPress Registration SQL Truncation Administrator Password Manipulation
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2008-09-12

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2008-4106" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : 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.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Authentication Management, Input Manipulation
Solution: Upgrade
Disclosure: Vendor Verified
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.6.2 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

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References

Security Tracker: 1020869
CVE ID: 2008-4106 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 31737 31870 36316
SCIP VulDB ID: 3825
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2008-2553
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-09/0154.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122152830017099&w=2
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2009/msg00188.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2009/msg00193.html
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-262/
Other Advisory URL: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/11/6
http://www.sektioneins.de/advisories/SE-2008-05.txt
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00607.html
Generic Informational URL: http://www.suspekt.org/2008/08/17/mt_srand-and-not-so-random-numbers/
http://www.suspekt.org/2008/08/18/mysql-and-sql-column-truncation-vulnerabilities/

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Credit

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CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.1
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-09-19 | Disagree?

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