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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T10:00:42.870Z
Reserved: 2008-09-15T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2008-4106

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2008-09-18T17:59:33.017
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2008-4106
