Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in WordPress, a weblog manager. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems :
CVE-2007-3639 Insufficient input sanitising allowed for remote attackers to redirect visitors to external websites.
CVE-2007-4153 Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities allowed remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.
CVE-2007-4154 SQL injection vulnerability allowed allowed remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary SQL commands.
CVE-2007-0540 WordPress allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth or thread consumption) via pingback service calls with a source URI that corresponds to a file with a binary content type, which is downloaded even though it cannot contain usable pingback data.
[no CVE name yet]
Insufficient input sanitising caused an attacker with a normal user account to access the administrative interface.
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-1564. The text
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#
include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(32126);
script_version("1.17");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2021/01/04");
script_cve_id("CVE-2007-0540", "CVE-2007-3639", "CVE-2007-4153", "CVE-2007-4154");
script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"1564");
script_name(english:"Debian DSA-1564-1 : wordpress - multiple vulnerabilities");
script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated package");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"description",
value:
"Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in WordPress, a
weblog manager. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project
identifies the following problems :
- CVE-2007-3639
Insufficient input sanitising allowed for remote
attackers to redirect visitors to external websites.
- CVE-2007-4153
Multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities allowed
remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary
web script or HTML.
- CVE-2007-4154
SQL injection vulnerability allowed allowed remote
authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary SQL
commands.
- CVE-2007-0540
WordPress allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
service (bandwidth or thread consumption) via pingback
service calls with a source URI that corresponds to a
file with a binary content type, which is downloaded
even though it cannot contain usable pingback data.
- [no CVE name yet]
Insufficient input sanitising caused an attacker with a
normal user account to access the administrative
interface."
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3639"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-4153"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-4154"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-0540"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1564"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:
"Upgrade the wordpress package.
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in
version 2.0.10-1etch2."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wordpress");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2008/05/01");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2008/05/02");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2021 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");
exit(0);
}
include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"wordpress", reference:"2.0.10-1etch2")) flag++;
if (flag)
{
if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
else security_warning(0);
exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
Vendor | Product | Version | CPE |
---|---|---|---|
debian | debian_linux | wordpress | p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wordpress |
debian | debian_linux | 4.0 | cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0 |
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-0540
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3639
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4153
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4154
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-0540
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3639
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-4153
security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-4154
www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1564