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GLSA-200701-10 : WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 24208

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-200701-10 (WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities)

 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.

Solution

All WordPress users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-apps/wordpress-2.0.6'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200701-10

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 24208

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200701-10.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 1/17/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/15/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/27/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-6808, CVE-2007-0107, CVE-2007-0109

GLSA: 200701-10