PT-2017-5383 · WordPress+1 · Wordpress+1

Published 2017-10-19 · Updated 2017-11-13 · CVE-2012-6707

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: WordPress versions prior to 4.8.3

Description: The issue is related to the use of a weak MD5-based password hashing algorithm, which can make it easier for attackers to determine cleartext values by leveraging access to the hash values.

Recommendations: For WordPress versions prior to 4.8.3, update to version 4.8.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Inadequate Encryption Strength

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-326

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-6707

Affected Products

Debian

Wordpress

References · 12

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6707 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-6707 · Vendor Advisory
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21022 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6707 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2012-6707 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6707 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6707 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/wordpress · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6707 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2012-6707 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-6707 · Note
• https://packages.debian.org/src:wordpress · Note