{"id":1092,"date":"2015-02-16T14:48:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T18:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogseye.com\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2015-02-16T14:48:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T18:48:50","slug":"wordpress-reset-password-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogseye\/2015\/02\/wordpress-reset-password-vulnerability.html","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Reset Password Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tokens that WordPress uses in its Reset Password emails is not very secure and there is a possibility that it can be reverse engineered by a malicious user. I just scanned my logs for the last week and there were no attempts on my sites. I expect we will soon see brute force attempts similar to the password guessing robots that I have been seeing.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a plugin (stop spammers add-on) to detect these types of hits, but without an active bad agent to test it, I don&#8217;t know if it is useful. If a robot does appear trying to guess the token, I will be ready.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tokens that WordPress uses in its Reset Password emails is not very secure and there is a possibility that it can be reverse engineered by a malicious user. I just scanned my logs for the last week and there were no attempts on my sites. I expect we will soon see brute force attempts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1092\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogseye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}