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Gentoo: GLSA-200507-02 High Severity: WordPress Multiple Threats

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Calendar Grey July 4, 2005
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Numerous critical weaknesses in WordPress have the potential to enable malicious users to run unauthorized scripts or reveal sensitive directory details.
WordPress contains PHP script injection, cross-site scripting and path disclosure vulnerabilities.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200507-02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities Date: July 04, 2005 Bugs: #97374 ID: 200507-02

Synopsis ======= WordPress contains PHP script injection, cross-site scripting and path disclosure vulnerabilities.
Background ========= WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based content management and publishing system.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 www-apps/wordpress < 1.5.1.3 >= 1.5.1.3
========== James Bercegay of the GulfTech Security Research Team discovered that WordPress insufficiently checks data passed to the XML-RPC server. He also discovered that WordPre...

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