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Wordpress: CVE-2012-6707: Inadequate Encryption Strength

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Wordpress: CVE-2012-6707: Inadequate Encryption Strength

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/19/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/23/2017
Modified
05/23/2019

Description

WordPress through 4.8.2 uses a weak MD5-based password hashing algorithm, which makes it easier for attackers to determine cleartext values by leveraging access to the hash values. NOTE: the approach to changing this may not be fully compatible with certain use cases, such as migration of a WordPress site from a web host that uses a recent PHP version to a different web host that uses PHP 5.2. These use cases are plausible (but very unlikely) based on statistics showing widespread deployment of WordPress with obsolete PHP versions.

Solution(s)

  • wordpress-upgrade-4_8_3

References

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