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FreeBSD : wordpress -- remote privilege escalation (884fced7-7f1c-11dd-a66a-0019666436c2)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34152

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The Wordpress development team reports :

With open registration enabled, it is possible in WordPress versions 2.6.1 and earlier to craft a username such that it will allow resetting another users password to a randomly generated password. The randomly generated password is not disclosed to the attacker, so this problem by itself is annoying but not a security exploit. However, this attack coupled with a weakness in the random number seeding in mt_rand() could be used to predict the randomly generated password.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://wordpress.org/news/2008/09/wordpress-262/

http://www.nessus.org/u?ab8080b7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34152

File Name: freebsd_pkg_884fced77f1c11dda66a0019666436c2.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Published: 9/10/2008

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.1

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:de-wordpress, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:wordpress, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:wordpress-mu, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:zh-wordpress, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/8/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-4106, CVE-2008-4107

BID: 31068

CWE: 189, 20