Description
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.
Published: 2008-09-18
Score: 5.1 Medium
EPSS: 14.6% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1871-1 New wordpress packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1871-2 New wordpress packages fix regression
History

Wed, 28 May 2025 14:45:00 +0000

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Wordpress Wordpress
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T10:00:42.870Z

Reserved: 2008-09-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-4106

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-09-18T17:59:33.017

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-4106

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2008-09-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-4106 - Bugzilla

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