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