281219 – <www-apps/wordpress-2.8.4: Password reset key check bypass (CVE-2009-2762)

Bug 281219 - <www-apps/wordpress-2.8.4: Password reset key check bypass (CVE-2009-2762)

Summary: <www-apps/wordpress-2.8.4: Password reset key check bypass (CVE-2009-2762)

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Security
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Security

URL:	http://wordpress.org/development/2009...
Whiteboard:	~4 [noglsa]
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Blocks:

Reported:	2009-08-12 15:18 UTC by Alex Legler (RETIRED)
Modified:	2009-08-14 22:20 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester

2009-08-12 15:18:37 UTC

From $URL:

Yesterday a vulnerability was discovered: a specially crafted URL could be requested that would allow an attacker to bypass a security check to verify a user requested a password reset. As a result, the first account without a key in the database (usually the admin account) would have its password reset and a new password would be emailed to the account owner. This doesn’t allow remote access, but it is very annoying.

Comment 1 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-12 17:15:50 UTC

2.8.4 in CVS.

Comment 2 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester

2009-08-14 22:20:10 UTC

CVE-2009-2762 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-2762):
  wp-login.php in WordPress 2.8.3 and earlier allows remote attackers
  to force a password reset for the first user in the database,
  possibly the administrator, via a key[] array variable in a resetpass
  (aka rp) action, which bypasses a check that assumes that $key is not
  an array.