GLSA 200701-10: WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities
| Severity: | normal |
| Title: | WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities |
| Date: | 01/15/2007 |
| Bugs: | |
| ID: | 200701-10 |
Synopsis
WordPress is vulnerable to SQL injection, information disclosure, and cross-site scripting attacks.Background
WordPress is a popular personal publishing platform with a web interface.
Affected packages
| Package | Vulnerable | Unaffected | Architecture(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| www-apps/wordpress | < 2.0.6 | >= 2.0.6 | All supported architectures |
Description
When decoding trackbacks with alternate character sets, WordPress does not correctly sanitize the entries before further modifying a SQL query. WordPress also displays different error messages in wp-login.php based upon whether or not a user exists. David Kierznowski has discovered that WordPress fails to properly sanitize recent file information in /wp-admin/templates.php before sending that information to a browser.
Impact
An attacker could inject arbitrary SQL into WordPress database queries. An attacker could also determine if a WordPress user existed by trying to login as that user, better facilitating brute force attacks. Lastly, an attacker authenticated to view the administrative section of a WordPress instance could try to edit a file with a malicious filename; this may cause arbitrary HTML or JavaScript to be executed in users' browsers viewing /wp-admin/templates.php.
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-2.0.6"
References
Availability
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License
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