Title: WordPress Predictable Cookie Generation Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
WordPress is a blogging application implemented PHP.
The application is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability because it generates author cookies in a predictable manner.
Specifically, this issue affects the 'comment_author_', 'comment_author_email_', and 'comment_author_url_' cookie parameters.
Attackers can exploit this issue to view unmoderated comments that could contain potentially sensitive information.
WordPress 2.2 and prior versions are vulnerable.
Affected Products:
- Gentoo Linux
- Gentoo Linux 1.4.0
- WordPress WordPress 0.7.0
- WordPress WordPress 0.71.0
- WordPress WordPress 1.2.0
- WordPress WordPress 1.2.1
- WordPress WordPress 1.2.2
- WordPress WordPress 1.5.0
- WordPress WordPress 1.5.1
- WordPress WordPress 1.5.1 .2
- WordPress WordPress 1.5.1 .3
- WordPress WordPress 1.5.2
- WordPress WordPress 2.0.0
- WordPress WordPress 2.0.1
- WordPress WordPress 2.0.10
- WordPress WordPress 2.0.10-RC1
- WordPress WordPress 2.0.10-RC2
- WordPress WordPress 2.0.2
- WordPress WordPress 2.0.3
- WordPress WordPress 2.0.4
- WordPress WordPress 2.0.5
- WordPress WordPress 2.0.6
- WordPress WordPress 2.0.7
- WordPress WordPress 2.1
- WordPress WordPress 2.1.1
- WordPress WordPress 2.1.2
- WordPress WordPress 2.1.3
- WordPress WordPress 2.1.3
- WordPress WordPress 2.1.3-RC1
- WordPress WordPress 2.1.3-RC2
- WordPress WordPress 2.2
- WordPress Wordpress (B2) 0.6.2
- WordPress Wordpress (B2) 0.6.2 .1
References:
- Sid: Wordpress Unauthorized Comment Disclosure
- WordPress: WordPress Homepage
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