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Wordpress "wp-login.php" HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA12773
Release Date: 2004-10-11
Last Update: 2005-02-22
Popularity: 12,219 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Wordpress 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2004-1584


Description:
Chaotic Evil has reported a vulnerability in Wordpress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion and cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "text" parameter in "wp-login.php" can be exploited to inject malicious characters into HTTP headers. This may allow execution of arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

This can also be exploited to perform web cache poisoning.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.2. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Update to version 1.2.1.
http://wordpress.org/download/

Provided and/or discovered by:
Chaotic Evil

Changelog:
2005-02-22: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://wordpress.org/development/2004/10/wp-121/


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