GLSA 200603-01: WordPress: SQL injection vulnerability

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Severity:	normal
Title:	WordPress: SQL injection vulnerability
Date:	03/04/2006
Bugs:	#121661
ID:	200603-01

Synopsis

WordPress is vulnerable to an SQL injection vulnerability.

Background

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

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
www-apps/wordpress	<= 1.5.2	>= 2.0.1	All supported architectures

Description

Patrik Karlsson reported that WordPress 1.5.2 makes use of an insufficiently filtered User Agent string in SQL queries related to comments posting. This vulnerability was already fixed in the 2.0-series of WordPress.

Impact

An attacker could send a comment with a malicious User Agent parameter, resulting in SQL injection and potentially in the subversion of the WordPress database. This vulnerability wouldn't affect WordPress sites which do not allow comments or which require that comments go through a moderator.

Workaround

Disable or moderate comments on your WordPress blogs.

Resolution

All WordPress users should upgrade to the latest version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/wordpress-2.0.1"

References

CVE-2006-1012

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200603-01.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.