WordPress Core < 2.8.4 - Forced Password Reset

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
CVE CVE-2009-2762
CVSS High (7.5)
Publicly Published August 12, 2009
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Description

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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Core
Software Slug wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.8.3
Patched Version
  • 2.8.4
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