Bug 1291356

Summary: wordpress: Information exposure on whether the username is registered in the system
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: carnil, fedora, gwync
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Description Adam Mariš 2015-12-14 16:41:59 UTC
It was found that Wordpress up to v4.4 discloses whether a username is registered inside the system at /wp_login.php, allowing attackers the opportunity to do brute-force password cracking attacks.

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http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Dec/60

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-12-14 16:42:27 UTC
Created wordpress tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1291357]
Affects: epel-all [bug 1291358]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:46:32 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.