Full Disclosure: Re: WordPress User Account Information Leak / Secunia Advisory SA23621

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On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Sven Kieske <svenkieske () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> the mentioned User account Enumeration Weakness
> stated in Advisory https://secunia.com/advisories/23621/
> still exists in the actual version 3.5.2 .
>
> The corresponding trac entry for wordpress is closed as
> "wontfix":
> https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1129
>
> Why?
>
> Maybe, because the trac bug mentions just version 1.5 as affected?
>
> I can easily reproduce this in version 3.5.2 .
>
> Please fix this, this bug is 8 years old!
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Sven Kieske
>
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