Debian DSA-2190-1 : wordpress - several vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 52637

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Synopsis

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

Description

Two XSS bugs and one potential information disclosure issue were discovered in WordPress, a weblog manager. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :

- CVE-2011-0700 Input passed via the post title when performing a 'Quick Edit' or'Bulk Edit' action and via the 'post_status', 'comment_status', and 'ping_status' parameters is not properly sanitised before being used. Certain input passed via tags in the tags meta-box is not properly sanitised before being returned to the user.

- CVE-2011-0701 WordPress incorrectly enforces user access restrictions when accessing posts via the media uploader and can be exploited to disclose the contents of e.g. private or draft posts.

The oldstable distribution (lenny) is not affected by these problems.

Solution

Upgrade the wordpress packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 3.0.5+dfsg-0+squeeze1.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 52637

File Name: debian_DSA-2190.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/14/2011

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wordpress, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/11/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-0700, CVE-2011-0701

BID: 46249

DSA: 2190

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