Wordpress contains several cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery and information leak vulnerabilities.
Package | www-apps/wordpress on all architectures |
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Affected versions | <= 2.1.2 |
Unaffected versions |
WordPress is a popular personal publishing platform with a web interface.
WordPress contains cross-site scripting or cross-site scripting forgery vulnerabilities reported by:
Additionally, WordPress prints the full PHP script paths in some error messages.
The cross-site scripting vulnerabilities can be triggered to steal browser session data or cookies. A remote attacker can entice a user to browse to a specially crafted web page that can trigger the cross-site request forgery vulnerability and perform arbitrary WordPress actions with the permissions of the user. Additionally, the path disclosure vulnerability could help an attacker to perform other attacks.
There is no known workaround at this time for all these vulnerabilities.
Due to the numerous recently discovered vulnerabilities in WordPress, this package has been masked in the portage tree. All WordPress users are advised to unmerge it.
# emerge --unmerge "www-apps/wordpress"
Release date
March 20, 2007
Latest revision
March 20, 2007: 01
Severity
low
Exploitable
remote
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