GLSA 200410-12: WordPress: HTTP response splitting and XSS vulnerabilities

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Severity:	low
Title:	WordPress: HTTP response splitting and XSS vulnerabilities
Date:	10/14/2004
Bugs:	#65798
ID:	200410-12

Synopsis

WordPress contains HTTP response splitting and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.

Background

WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based content management and publishing system.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
www-apps/wordpress	< 1.2.2	>= 1.2.2	All supported architectures

Description

Due to the lack of input validation in the administration panel scripts, WordPress is vulnerable to HTTP response splitting and cross-site scripting attacks.

Impact

A malicious user could inject arbitrary response data, leading to content spoofing, web cache poisoning and other cross-site scripting or HTTP response splitting attacks. This could result in compromising the victim's data or browser.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All WordPress users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/wordpress-1.2.2"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200410-12.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.