Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-5868 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Wordpress 3.4.2

047910
CVSS 2.6 - LOW
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
HIGH
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
high complexity
wordpress
CWE-200

Summary

WordPress 3.4.2 does not invalidate a wordpress_sec session cookie upon an administrator's logout action, which makes it easier for remote attackers to discover valid session identifiers via a brute-force attack, or modify data via a replay attack.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Wordpress
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Subverting Environment Variable Values
    The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
  • Footprinting
    An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
  • Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible)
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
  • Browser Fingerprinting
    An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
  • Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
    This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.

Seebug

bulletinFamilyexploit
descriptionBugtraq ID:57019 CVE ID:CVE-2012-5868 WordPress是一款使用PHP语言开发的内容管理系统。 当通过注销链接(https://domainame.com/wp-login.php?action=logout)从WordPress 3.4.2(或其他版本)管理接口退出时,Wordpress会清除用户浏览器上的Cookie信息,但没有在Wordpress应用自身中使会话cookie失效。恶意用户如果能获取之前验证用户的会话cookie(wordpress_sec),添加到管理员接口访问的请求中(如https://domainname.com/wp-admin/profile.php),可拥有与之前用户相同的角色和权限来访问系统。 0 WordPress 3.4.2及可能其他版本 厂商解决方案 目前没有详细解决方案提供: http://www.wordpress.org/
idSSV:60532
last seen2017-11-19
modified2012-12-24
published2012-12-24
reporterRoot
titleWordPress 'wp-login.php'安全绕过漏洞(CVE-2012-5868)