NVD

Id
3964  
Name
CVE-2008-4106  
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.  
Reject
 
CVSS Version
2  
CVSS Score
5.1  
Severity
Medium  
CVSS Base Score
5.1  
CVSS Impact Subscore
6.4  
CVSS Exploit Subscore
4.9  
CVSS Vector
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)  
Pub Date
2017-01-03  
Published
2008-09-18  
Modified Date
2011-03-07  
Seq
2008-4106  

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