Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in wordpress, a weblog
manager. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
problems:
- CVE-2007-3238
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in functions.php in the default
theme in WordPress allows remote authenticated administrators to inject
arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO (REQUEST_URI) to
wp-admin/themes.php.
- CVE-2007-2821
SQL injection vulnerability in wp-admin/admin-ajax.php in WordPress
before 2.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via
the cookie parameter.
- CVE-2008-0193
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-db-backup.php in
WordPress 2.0.11 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject
arbitrary web script or HTML via the backup parameter in a
wp-db-backup.php action to wp-admin/edit.php.
- CVE-2008-0194
Directory traversal vulnerability in wp-db-backup.php in WordPress 2.0.3
and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files, delete
arbitrary files, and cause a denial of service via a … (dot dot) in the
backup parameter in a wp-db-backup.php action to wp-admin/edit.php.
Wordpress is not present in the oldstable distribution (sarge).
For the stable distribution (etch), these problems have been fixed in version
2.0.10-1etch1.
We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress package.