WordPress before 2.6.2 does not properly handle MySQL...
Moderate severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 2, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
•
Updated Jan 31, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Sep 18, 2008
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 2, 2022
Last updated
Jan 31, 2023
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.
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