|
WordPress Multiple Vulnerabilities
|
|
Secunia Advisory:
|
SA26771
|
|
|
Release Date:
|
2007-09-12
|
|
Last Update:
|
2008-05-14
|
|
Popularity:
|
8,949 views
|
|
|
Critical:
|
Moderately critical
|
|
Impact:
|
Security Bypass
Cross Site Scripting
Manipulation of data
|
|
Where:
|
From remote
|
|
Solution Status:
|
Vendor Patch
|
|
| Software: | WordPress 2.x
WordPress MU 1.x
|
|
|
Subscribe:
|
Instant alerts on relevant vulnerabilities 
|
|
| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-4893
CVE-2007-4894
CVE-2008-2146
|
|
Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct script insertion attacks and bypass certain security restrictions, and by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.
1) The "unfiltered_html" privilege feature can be bypassed by adding a field named "no_filter". This can be exploited by malicious users without the "unfiltered_html" privilege to e.g. post blog entries with arbitrary HTML and script code via specially crafted POST requests.
2) Input passed to certain parameters (e.g. the "post_type" parameter of the URL passed to the "pingback.extensions.getPingbacks()" XMLRPC method) is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
3) A vulnerability is caused due to improper access restriction. This can be exploited to bypass the authentication mechanism and e.g. switch themes or activate/deactivate plugins without valid administrator credentials, by passing malicious data in the "PATH_INFO" part of a URL.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires valid user credentials.
The vulnerabilities are reported in Wordpress prior to 2.2.3 and Wordpress MU prior to 1.2.5a.
Solution:
Update to Wordpress version 2.2.3 or Wordpress MU version 1.2.5a.
Provided and/or discovered by:
1) xknown
2) Alexander Concha, buayacorp.com
3) xknown
Changelog:
2007-09-18: Added CVE reference.
2008-05-14: Added vulnerability #3. Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
1) http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4720
2) http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-sql-injection-advisory.html
3) http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4748
|
|
|
Track this Secunia Advisory
|
Customers of the Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence solutions will automatically receive updates when new information regarding this advisory is released.
Read more about our Vulnerability Intelligence solutions and what they can do for you and your company.
|
|
|
About this Secunia Advisory
|
Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.
Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.
|
