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Debian DSA-1502-1 : wordpress - several vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 31146

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in wordpress, a weblog manager. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

 - CVE-2007-3238 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in functions.php in the default theme in WordPress allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO (REQUEST_URI) to wp-admin/themes.php.

 - CVE-2007-2821 SQL injection vulnerability in wp-admin/admin-ajax.php in WordPress before 2.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the cookie parameter.

 - CVE-2008-0193 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-db-backup.php in WordPress 2.0.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the backup parameter in a wp-db-backup.php action to wp-admin/edit.php.

 - CVE-2008-0194 Directory traversal vulnerability in wp-db-backup.php in WordPress 2.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, delete arbitrary files, and cause a denial of service via a .. (dot dot) in the backup parameter in a wp-db-backup.php action to wp-admin/edit.php.

Wordpress is not present in the oldstable distribution (sarge).

Solution

Upgrade the wordpress package.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.10-1etch1.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3238

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-2821

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-0193

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-0194

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1502

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 31146

File Name: debian_DSA-1502.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/25/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.1

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wordpress, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 2/22/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0193, CVE-2008-0194

CWE: 22, 79

DSA: 1502