Title: WordPress 2.04 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
WordPress is a web-based publishing application implemented in PHP.
WordPress 2.04 is prone to multiple security vulnerabilities. A number of the pertinent security-related issues addressed in the most recent WordPress upgrade are as follows:
- A serialized string denial-of-service vulnerability resides in the 'first name' field of the profile page. Users can enter serialized objects as strings and cause a denial of service on the underlying webserver implementation by consuming excess memory.
- An information-disclosure issue resides in the 'user_id' parameter of the 'user-edit.php' script. Logged-in users can access the metadata of any other user by entering a specific URI.
- A design issue that presents itself in the 'check_comment' parameter of the comment-functions.php script allows a malicious user to falsely inflate HTTP counting statistics.
Very little information is available on the specifics of each issue; Symantec has not been able to verify the accuracy or impact of each vulnerability outlined. This BID will be updated as more information becomes available.
WordPress 2.04 is vulnerable to these issues. The vendor has released version 2.05 to address these issues.
Affected Products:
- Gentoo Linux
- WordPress WordPress 2.0.4
References:
- WordPress: Mark On WordPress
- WordPress: WordPress Download
- WordPress: WordPress Trac
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