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Remote Exploits: multiple vulnerabilities

Bug #111620 reported by W. Scott Lockwood III
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
wordpress (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: wordpress

NOTE: please fix dapper as well!

Package : wordpress
Vulnerability : several
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2007-1622 CVE-2007-1893 CVE-2007-1894 CVE-2007-1897

CVE-2007-1622
    Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/vars.php in
    WordPress before 2.0.10 RC2, and before 2.1.3 RC2 in the 2.1 series,
    allows remote authenticated users with theme privileges to inject
    arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO in the administration
    interface, related to loose regular expression processing of PHP_SELF.

CVE-2007-1893
    WordPress 2.1.2, and probably earlier, allows remote authenticated
    users with the contributor role to bypass intended access restrictions
    and invoke the publish_posts functionality, which can be used to
    "publish a previously saved post."

CVE-2007-1894
    Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in
    wp-includes/general-template.php in WordPress before 20070309 allows
    remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the year
    parameter in the wp_title function.

CVE-2007-1897
    SQL injection vulnerability in xmlrpc.php in WordPress 2.1.2, and
    probably earlier, allows remote authenticated users to execute
    arbitrary SQL commands via a string parameter value in an XML RPC
    mt.setPostCategories method call, related to the post_id variable.

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W. Scott Lockwood III (wsl3) wrote :

Confirmed, sighted on Debian Security Announce <email address hidden>

Changed in wordpress:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Kjell Braden (afflux) wrote :

This debdiff should fix CVE-2007-1622, CVE-2007-1893 and CVE-2007-1897 in dapper, since CVE-2007-1894 doesn't affect dapper.

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Kjell Braden (afflux) wrote :

Correction: CVE-2007-1894 does affect dapper, but the filenames have changed. I'm working on it.

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Kjell Braden (afflux) wrote :

I'm really sorry, I just noticed that these patches don't necessarily work. I haven't tested them well enough.

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Kees Cook (kees) wrote :

Thanks for starting work on this! Please keep me posted on your progress.

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Kjell Braden (afflux) wrote :

These, and about 10 other security vulnerabilities are fixed in the current debian stable package (2.0.10-1,see changelog [1]). I'd suggest a SRU. (working on, or at least trying it)

[1] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/w/wordpress/wordpress_2.0.10-1/changelog

Changed in wordpress:
assignee: nobody → afflux
status: Confirmed → In Progress
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Kjell Braden (afflux) wrote :

Anyone can review this?

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Kjell Braden (afflux) wrote :
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Kjell Braden (afflux) wrote :

Unassigning me, since theres nothing for me to do anymore. The latest comment on this was "we don't really know what to do here" (on irc). It's lot of work extracting the fixes from upstream, I think the best solution would be to just SRU to at least 2.0.10-1 which is in debian stable.

Changed in wordpress:
assignee: afflux → nobody
Emmet Hikory (persia)
Changed in wordpress:
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: In Progress → Confirmed
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