CVE-2007-6013
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 3.3% (pctl 88)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 3.28% — more likely to be exploited than 88% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-327 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2007-11-19 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (2)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| fedoraproject | fedora |
| wordpress | wordpress |
References
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-November/058576.html
- http://osvdb.org/40801
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27714
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28310
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3375
- http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5367
- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-auth.txt
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483927/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018980
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3941
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38578
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00079.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00098.html
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-November/058576.html
- http://osvdb.org/40801
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27714
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28310
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3375
- http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/5367
- http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/advisories/wordpress-cookie-auth.txt
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