[wp-hackers] does bug in php crypt() affects WP?

Otto otto at ottodestruct.com
Thu Aug 25 20:14:55 UTC 2011


On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Leo germani <leogermani at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does this - https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55439 - affects WordPress in
> anyway?

No. WordPress doesn't use the crypt function to do md5 code. There's a
couple of uses of it in the PHPass library, but those are used for
Blowfish or DES encryption, not md5.

-Otto


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