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:

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.

Fixed in:

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
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.