Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-0109 - Unspecified vulnerability in Wordpress
Attack vector
UNKNOWN Attack complexity
UNKNOWN Privileges required
UNKNOWN Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN Integrity impact
UNKNOWN Availability impact
UNKNOWN wordpress
nessus
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 |
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Application | 6 |
Nessus
NASL family | Gentoo Local Security Checks |
NASL id | GENTOO_GLSA-200701-10.NASL |
description | The 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 seen | 2020-06-01 |
modified | 2020-06-02 |
plugin id | 24208 |
published | 2007-01-17 |
reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2019 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/24208 |
title | GLSA-200701-10 : WordPress: Multiple vulnerabilities |
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23621
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-10.xml
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23741
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2113
- http://osvdb.org/31577
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0062
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31262
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455927/100/0/threaded