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  Severity: High
     Title: WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: July 04, 2005
      Bugs: #97374
        ID: 200507-02

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Synopsis
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WordPress contains PHP script injection, cross-site scripting and path
disclosure vulnerabilities.

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

Affected packages
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     Package             /  Vulnerable  /                   Unaffected
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  1  www-apps/wordpress      < 1.5.1.3                      >= 1.5.1.3

Description
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James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team discovered that
WordPress insufficiently checks data passed to the XML-RPC server. He
also discovered that WordPress has several cross-site scripting and
full path disclosure vulnerabilities.

Impact
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An attacker could use the PHP script injection vulnerabilities to
execute arbitrary PHP script commands. Furthermore the cross-site
scripting vulnerabilities could be exploited to execute arbitrary
script code in a user's browser session in context of a vulnerable
site.

Workaround
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There are no known workarounds at this time.

Resolution
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All WordPress users should upgrade to the latest available version:

    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/wordpress-1.5.1.3"

References
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  [ 1 ] CAN-2005-1921
          [ 2 ] GulfTech Advisory
        https://gulftech.org/;article_id=00085-06282005

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

  https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200507-02

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org/.

License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/