Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-0109 - Information Disclosure vulnerability in WordPress

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
NONE
network
low complexity
wordpress
nessus
NVD
Published: 2007-01-09
Updated: 2018-10-16

Summary

wp-login.php in WordPress 2.0.5 and earlier displays different error messages if a user exists or not, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information and facilitates brute force attacks.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Wordpress
6

Nessus

NASL familyGentoo Local Security Checks
NASL idGENTOO_GLSA-200701-10.NASL
descriptionThe remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200701-10 (WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities) When decoding trackbacks with alternate character sets, WordPress does not correctly sanitize the entries before further modifying a SQL query. WordPress also displays different error messages in wp-login.php based upon whether or not a user exists. David Kierznowski has discovered that WordPress fails to properly sanitize recent file information in /wp-admin/templates.php before sending that information to a browser. Impact : An attacker could inject arbitrary SQL into WordPress database queries. An attacker could also determine if a WordPress user existed by trying to login as that user, better facilitating brute-force attacks. Lastly, an attacker authenticated to view the administrative section of a WordPress instance could try to edit a file with a malicious filename; this may cause arbitrary HTML or JavaScript to be executed in users
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id24208
published2007-01-17
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/24208
titleGLSA-200701-10 : WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities

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