GLSA-200703-23 : WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 24889

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200703-23 (WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities)

WordPress contains cross-site scripting or cross-site scripting forgery vulnerabilities reported by:
g30rg3_x in the 'year' parameter of the wp_title() function Alexander Concha in the 'demo' parameter of wp-admin/admin.php Samenspender and Stefan Friedli in the 'post' parameter of wp-admin/post.php and wp-admin/page.php, in the 'cat_ID' parameter of wp-admin/categories.php and in the 'c' parameter of wp-admin/comment.php PsychoGun in the 'file' parameter of wp-admin/templates.php Additionally, WordPress prints the full PHP script paths in some error messages.
Impact :

The cross-site scripting vulnerabilities can be triggered to steal browser session data or cookies. A remote attacker can entice a user to browse to a specially crafted web page that can trigger the cross-site request forgery vulnerability and perform arbitrary WordPress actions with the permissions of the user. Additionally, the path disclosure vulnerability could help an attacker to perform other attacks.
Workaround :

There is no known workaround at this time for all these vulnerabilities.

Solution

Due to the numerous recently discovered vulnerabilities in WordPress, this package has been masked in the portage tree. All WordPress users are advised to unmerge it.
# emerge --unmerge 'www-apps/wordpress'

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 24889

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200703-23.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 3/26/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:wordpress, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 3/20/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1049, CVE-2007-1230, CVE-2007-1244, CVE-2007-1409

GLSA: 200703-23

Detections

Analytics