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Debian: DSA-1564-1 Critical: WordPress Remote Threats Overview

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Calendar Grey May 1, 2008
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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1234-1 highlights several vulnerabilities in Drupal necessitating prompt user intervention.
Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in wordpress, a weblog manager

Summary


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 ...

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