Package: wordpress
Severity: grave
Tags: security

Hi,
the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for wordpress.


CVE-2008-1930[0]:
| An attacker, who is able to register a specially crafted username on
| a Wordpress 2.5 installation, is able to generate authentication
| cookies for other chosen accounts.
|
| This vulnerability exists because it is possible to modify
| authentication cookies without invalidating the cryptographic
| integrity protection.
| 
| If a Wordpress blog is configured to freely permit account creation,
| a remote attacker can gain Wordpress-administrator access and then
| elevate this to arbitrary code execution as the web server user.

Note, this is not yet on the mitre site, see:
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/04/wordpress-251/ in the meantime.

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1930
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2008-1930

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