Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1564-1 wordpress -- multiple vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 01 May 2008
- Affected Packages:
- wordpress
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2007-3639, CVE-2007-4153, CVE-2007-4154, CVE-2007-0540.
- More information:
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Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in WordPress, a weblog manager. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CVE-2007-3639
Insufficient input sanitising allowed for remote attackers to redirect visitors to external websites.
- CVE-2007-4153
Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities allowed remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.
- CVE-2007-4154
SQL injection vulnerability allowed allowed remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary SQL commands.
- CVE-2007-0540
WordPress allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth or thread consumption) via pingback service calls with a source URI that corresponds to a file with a binary content type, which is downloaded even though it cannot contain usable pingback data.
- [no CVE name yet]
Insufficient input sanitising caused an attacker with a normal user account to access the administrative interface.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.10-1etch2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress package.
- CVE-2007-3639
- Fixed in:
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Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordpress/wordpress_2.0.10.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordpress/wordpress_2.0.10-1etch2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordpress/wordpress_2.0.10-1etch2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordpress/wordpress_2.0.10-1etch2.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordpress/wordpress_2.0.10-1etch2_all.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.