Posts Tagged advisory
Wordpress Security Flaw – Admin Password Reset
Posted by Howard Yeend in Wordpress, hacking on August 11th, 2009
It is possible to reset the admin password in all versions of wordpress up to and including the most recent version 2.8.3.
This information comes from a milw0rm exploit.
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Breaking CAPTCHA without OCR
Posted by Howard Yeend in CAPTCHA, hacking on November 30th, 2005
Breaking CAPTCHAs Without Using OCR
For my own PHP CAPTCHA implementation, click here.
This article details a method I have discovered to bypass CAPTCHA security, without having to use Optical Character Recognition software. It depends on an implementation problem that was quite common among CAPTCHA scripts when I originally published this in May 2005.
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