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Secunia Security Advisory 31737

Secunia Security Advisory 31737
Posted Sep 12, 2008
Authored by Secunia | Site secunia.com

Secunia Security Advisory - Stefan Esser has reported a vulnerability in WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to guess automatically generated passwords.

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Secunia Security Advisory 31737

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TITLE:
WordPress Insecure Password Generation Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA31737

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/31737/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Brute force

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
WordPress 2.x
http://secunia.com/advisories/product/6745/

DESCRIPTION:
Stefan Esser has reported a vulnerability in WordPress, which can be
exploited by malicious people to guess automatically generated
passwords.

The vulnerability is caused due to WordPress using a weak pseudo
random number generator to generate passwords while leaking it's
state information to an attacker. In combination with other attacks
this can e.g. be exploited to recover the administrator's
automatically generated password.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.6.2.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.6.2.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Stefan Esser

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.sektioneins.de/advisories/SE-2008-05.txt
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/09/wordpress-262/

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