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Vulnerability details: VCID-ax5m-szc5-7uea
Vulnerability ID VCID-ax5m-szc5-7uea
Aliases CVE-2008-1930
Summary The cookie authentication method in WordPress 2.5 relies on a hash of a concatenated string containing USERNAME and EXPIRY_TIME, which allows remote attackers to forge cookies by registering a username that results in the same concatenated string, as demonstrated by registering usernames beginning with "admin" to obtain administrator privileges, aka a "cryptographic splicing" issue. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-6013.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
epss 0.07505 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-1930
Reference id Reference type URL
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2008-1930
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1930
477910 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=477910
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.91915
EPSS Score 0.07505
Published At May 29, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-29T13:40:56.582768+00:00 Debian Oval Importer Import https://www.debian.org/security/oval/oval-definitions-bullseye.xml.bz2 38.6.0