WordPress <=1.2 - CRLF (Carriage Return Line Feed) injection - Patchstack

Vulnerability Database

WordPress <=1.2 - CRLF (Carriage Return Line Feed) injection

wordpress

Software

WordPress

Versions

<=1.2

Disclosure date

2005-02-20

CVE

CVE-2004-1584

References

CVE Mitre

Credits

Chaotic Evil

Classification

CRLF Injection

OWASP Top 10

A1: Injection

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Details

Because of this vulnerability in wp-login.php, attackers can perform HTTP Response Splitting attacks to modify expected HTML content from the server via the "text" parameter.

Solution

Update the WordPress to the latest available version (at least 1.2.1).

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