WordPress 2.5 has a security issue called “”cryptographic splicing”” where remote attackers can gain administrator privileges by registering usernames that begin with “”admin””. This is possible because the cookie authentication method relies on a hash of a string that includes both the username and an expiry time. This vulnerability is a result of an incomplete fix for a previous security issue (CVE-2007-6013).
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