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Debian: DSA-1871-1 Moderate: WordPress Remote Attack Severity Report

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Calendar Grey August 23, 2009
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The recent Debian Security Notice DSA-1892-1 reveals important patches addressing severe vulnerabilities within the Joomla CMS that could affect website administrators.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in wordpress, weblog manager

Summary

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in wordpress, weblog
manager. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the
following problems:

CVE-2008-6762

It was discovered that wordpress is prone to an open redirect
vulnerability which allows remote attackers to conduct phishing atacks.

CVE-2008-6767

It was discovered that remote attackers had the ability to trigger an
application upgrade, which could lead to a denial of service attack.

CVE-2009-2334

It was discovered that wordpress lacks authentication checks in the
plugin configuration, which might leak sensitive information.

CVE-2009-2854

It was discovered that wordpress lacks authentication checks in various
actions, thus allowing remote attackers to produce unauthorised edits or
additions.

CVE-2009-2851

It was discovered that the administrator interface is prone to a
cross-site scripting attack. ...

Read the Full Advisory

Package: wordpress
CVE IDs: CVE-2008-6762 CVE-2008-6767 CVE-2009-2334 CVE-2009-2854

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