WordPress: HTTP response splitting and XSS vulnerabilities

1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory

Advisory Reference	GLSA 200410-12 / wordpress
Release Date	October 14, 2004
Latest Revision	May 22, 2006: 04
Impact	low
Exploitable	remote

Package	Vulnerable versions	Unaffected versions	Architecture(s)
www-apps/wordpress	< 1.2.2	>= 1.2.2	All supported architectures

Related bugreports: #65798

Synopsis

WordPress contains HTTP response splitting and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities.

2. Impact Information

Background

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

Description

Due to the lack of input validation in the administration panel scripts, WordPress is vulnerable to HTTP response splitting and cross-site scripting attacks.

Impact

A malicious user could inject arbitrary response data, leading to content spoofing, web cache poisoning and other cross-site scripting or HTTP response splitting attacks. This could result in compromising the victim's data or browser.

3. Resolution Information

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All WordPress users should upgrade to the latest version:

Code Listing 3.1: Resolution

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/wordpress-1.2.2"

4. References

Page updated October 14, 2004

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