full-disclosure - Re: Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability

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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:08:36 +0100
From: Stefan Esser <stefan.esser@...tioneins.de>
To: "Steven J. Murdoch" <fulldisc+Steven.Murdoch@...cam.ac.uk>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability

Steven J. Murdoch schrieb:
> Wordpress Cookie Authentication Vulnerability
>
> Original release date: 2007-11-19
>   
...
> Source: Steven J. Murdoch <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/>
>   
Could you elaborate why you consider this news? Most public SQL
injection exploits for Wordpress use this cookie trick.

A simple search on milw0rm will reveal that even a Gulftech Wordpress
SQL injection exploits from 2005 uses this method to login as admin once
it has discovered the hash.

Yours,
Stefan Esser

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