FreeBSD : wordpress -- XMLRPC SQL Injection (0838733d-1698-11dc-a197-0011098b2f36)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 25591

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Secunia reports :

Slappter has discovered a vulnerability in WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the 'wp.suggestCategories' method in xmlrpc.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

Successful exploitation allows e.g. retrieving usernames and password hashes, but requires valid user credentials and knowledge of the database table prefix.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 25591

File Name: freebsd_pkg_0838733d169811dca1970011098b2f36.nasl

Version: 1.24

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 6/27/2007

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:de-wordpress, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:zh-wordpress, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:wordpress

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/6/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-3140

BID: 24344

Secunia: 25552

Detections

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