GLSA 200507-02: WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	high
Title:	WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	07/04/2005
Bugs:	#97374
ID:	200507-02

Synopsis

WordPress contains PHP script injection, cross-site scripting and path disclosure vulnerabilities.

Background

WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based content management and publishing system.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
www-apps/wordpress	< 1.5.1.3	>= 1.5.1.3	All supported architectures

Description

James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team discovered that WordPress insufficiently checks data passed to the XML-RPC server. He also discovered that WordPress has several cross-site scripting and full path disclosure vulnerabilities.

Impact

An attacker could use the PHP script injection vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary PHP script commands. Furthermore the cross-site scripting vulnerabilities could be exploited to execute arbitrary script code in a user's browser session in context of a vulnerable site.

Workaround

There are no known workarounds at this time.

Resolution

All WordPress users should upgrade to the latest available version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/wordpress-1.5.1.3"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200507-02.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.