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    CVE-2012-6707

    WordPress through 4.8.2 uses a weak MD5-based password hashing algorithm, which makes it easier for attackers to determine cleartext values by leveraging access to the hash values. NOTE: the approach to changing this may not be fully compatible with certain use cases, such as migration of a WordPress site from a web host that uses a recent PHP version to a different web host that uses PHP 5.2. These use cases are plausible (but very unlikely) based on statistics showing widespread deployment of WordPress with obsolete PHP versions.

    Published:Oct 19, 2017
    Last Modified:Apr 20, 2025
    EPS:Oct 19, 2017
    EPSS Score:0.00137
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Wordpress
    Product
    Wordpress

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-326 Inadequate Encryption Strength

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-112 Brute Force
    CAPEC-192 Protocol Analysis
    CAPEC-20 Encryption Brute Forcing

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High