Automattic · Report #107296
Possible Timing Side-Channel in XMLRPC Verification
Validstatus
2upvotes
17 Mar 2016disclosed
How it was found
I mentioned this to @daljo628 and he suggested submitting it here instead.
This looks very much like a classic timing attack vulnerability. The fix would be to use hash_equals() (which I have provided a sane polyfill for in sarciszewski/php-future if you don't already have one handy).