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WordPress <= 2.8.3 Reset Admin Password Vulnerability

by wingman on August 29th, 2009 at 22:23
Posted In: wordpress

An exploit has been released for all current versions of WordPress including WordPress <= 2.8.3. Laurent Gaffié who published the finding says:
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to compromise the admin account of any wordpress/wordpress-mu <= 2.8.3
From what I can tell the vulnerability allows an attacker to reset the admin user account without having a valid email [...]

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