CVE-2007-6013

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-327

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Nov 19, 2007
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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