{
  "modified": "2025-08-09T19:01:28Z",
  "published": "2017-10-19T19:29:00Z",
  "id": "CVE-2012-6707",
  "details": "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.",
  "severity": [
    {
      "type": "CVSS_V3",
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21022"
    },
    {
      "type": "FIX",
      "url": "https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21022"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/21022"
    }
  ]
}