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Debian DSA-1564-1 : wordpress - multiple vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 32126

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-2007-3639 Insufficient input sanitising allowed for remote attackers to redirect visitors to external websites.

 - CVE-2007-4153 Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities allowed remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

 - CVE-2007-4154 SQL injection vulnerability allowed allowed remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary SQL commands.

 - CVE-2007-0540 WordPress allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth or thread consumption) via pingback service calls with a source URI that corresponds to a file with a binary content type, which is downloaded even though it cannot contain usable pingback data.

 - [no CVE name yet]

 Insufficient input sanitising caused an attacker with a normal user account to access the administrative interface.

Solution

Upgrade the wordpress package.

For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.10-1etch2.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3639

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-4153

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-4154

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-0540

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1564

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 32126

File Name: debian_DSA-1564.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/2/2008

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/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: 5/1/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-0540, CVE-2007-3639, CVE-2007-4153, CVE-2007-4154

DSA: 1564