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Debian DSA-2138-1 : wordpress - SQL injection

medium Nessus Plugin ID 51400

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Vladimir Kolesnikov discovered a SQL injection vulnerability in WordPress, a weblog manager. An authenticated user could execute arbitrary SQL commands via the Send Trackbacks field.

Solution

Upgrade the wordpress package.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 2.5.1-11+lenny4.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2138

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 51400

File Name: debian_DSA-2138.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wordpress, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/29/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-4257

BID: 45131

DSA: 2138