__________________________________________________________ The U.S. Department of Energy Computer Incident Advisory Capability ___ __ __ _ ___ / | /_\ / \___ __|__ / \ \___ __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION BULLETIN WordPress Vulnerability [Debian Security Advisory DSA-1502-1] February 25, 2008 21:00 GMT Number S-193 ______________________________________________________________________________ PROBLEM: Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in wordpress, a weblog manager. Could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands. PLATFORM: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch) DAMAGE: Allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the cookie parameter. SOLUTION: Upgrade to the appropriate version. ______________________________________________________________________________ VULNERABILITY The risk is MEDIUM. Allows remote attackerd to execute ASSESSMENT: arbitrary SQL commands. ______________________________________________________________________________ LINKS: CIAC BULLETIN: http://www.ciac.org/ciac/bulletins/s-193.shtml ORIGINAL BULLETIN: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1502 CVE: http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name= CVE-2007-3238 CVE-2007-2821 CVE-2008-0193 CVE-2008-0194 ______________________________________________________________________________ [***** Start Debian Security Advisory DSA-1502-1 *****] Debian Security Advisory DSA-1502-1 wordpress -- several vulnerabilities Date Reported: 22 Feb 2008 Affected Packages: wordpress Vulnerable: Yes Security database references: No other external database security references currently available. More information: Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in wordpress, a weblog manager. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2007-3238 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in functions.php in the default theme in WordPress allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO (REQUEST_URI) to wp-admin/themes.php. CVE-2007-2821 SQL injection vulnerability in wp-admin/admin-ajax.php in WordPress before 2.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the cookie parameter. CVE-2008-0193 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-db-backup.php in WordPress 2.0.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the backup parameter in a wp-db-backup.php action to wp-admin/edit.php. CVE-2008-0194 Directory traversal vulnerability in wp-db-backup.php in WordPress 2.0.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, delete arbitrary files, and cause a denial of service via a .. (dot dot) in the backup parameter in a wp-db-backup.php action to wp-admin/edit.php. For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.0.10-1etch1. Wordpress is not present in the oldstable distribution (sarge). 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_2.0.10-1etch1.diff.gz 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_2.0.10-1etch1.dsc Architecture-independent component: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/wordpress/wordpress_2.0.10-1etch1_all.deb MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory. 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