Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-4029 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
NONE Summary
WordPress before 4.5 does not consider octal and hexadecimal IP address formats when determining an intranet address, which allows remote attackers to bypass an intended SSRF protection mechanism via a crafted address.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DLA-633.NASL description Several vulnerabilities were discovered in wordpress, a web blogging tool. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues. CVE-2015-8834: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/wp-db.php in WordPress before 4.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a long comment that is improperly stored because of limitations on the MySQL TEXT data type. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-3440 CVE-2016-4029: WordPress before 4.5 does not consider octal and hexadecimal IP address formats when determining an intranet address, which allows remote attackers to bypass an intended SSRF protection mechanism via a crafted address. CVE-2016-5836: The oEmbed protocol implementation in WordPress before 4.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors. CVE-2016-6634: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the network settings page in WordPress before 4.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors. CVE-2016-6635: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the wp_ajax_wp_compression_test function in wp-admin/includes/ajax- actions.php in WordPress before 4.5 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the script compression option. CVE-2016-7168: Fix a cross-site scripting vulnerability via image filename. CVE-2016-7169: Fix a path traversal vulnerability in the upgrade package uploader. For Debian 7 last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2016-09-23 plugin id 93667 published 2016-09-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93667 title Debian DLA-633-1 : wordpress security update code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Debian Security Advisory DLA-633-1. The text # itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(93667); script_version("2.9"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/03/12"); script_cve_id("CVE-2015-8834", "CVE-2016-4029", "CVE-2016-5836", "CVE-2016-6634", "CVE-2016-6635", "CVE-2016-7168", "CVE-2016-7169"); script_name(english:"Debian DLA-633-1 : wordpress security update"); script_summary(english:"Checks dpkg output for the updated packages."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Debian host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Several vulnerabilities were discovered in wordpress, a web blogging tool. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following issues. CVE-2015-8834: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/wp-db.php in WordPress before 4.2.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a long comment that is improperly stored because of limitations on the MySQL TEXT data type. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2015-3440 CVE-2016-4029: WordPress before 4.5 does not consider octal and hexadecimal IP address formats when determining an intranet address, which allows remote attackers to bypass an intended SSRF protection mechanism via a crafted address. CVE-2016-5836: The oEmbed protocol implementation in WordPress before 4.5.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors. CVE-2016-6634: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the network settings page in WordPress before 4.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors. CVE-2016-6635: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the wp_ajax_wp_compression_test function in wp-admin/includes/ajax- actions.php in WordPress before 4.5 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that change the script compression option. CVE-2016-7168: Fix a cross-site scripting vulnerability via image filename. CVE-2016-7169: Fix a path traversal vulnerability in the upgrade package uploader. For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u12. We recommend that you upgrade your wordpress packages. NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/09/msg00026.html" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/wordpress" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Upgrade the affected wordpress, and wordpress-l10n packages." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"); script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false"); 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:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:wordpress-l10n"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/09/22"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/09/23"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 Tenable Network Security, Inc."); 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:"7.0", prefix:"wordpress", reference:"3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u12")) flag++; if (deb_check(release:"7.0", prefix:"wordpress-l10n", reference:"3.6.1+dfsg-1~deb7u12")) 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");
NASL family CGI abuses NASL id WORDPRESS_4_5_0.NASL description According to its self-reported version number, the WordPress application running on the remote web server is prior to 4.5.0. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A server-side request forgery vulnerability exists due improper request handling between a user and the server. An attacker can exploit this, via a specially crafted request to the http.php script using octal or hexadecimal IP addresses, to bypass access restrictions and perform unintended actions. (CVE-2016-4029) - A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists due to improper validation of user-supplied input to the last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 91100 published 2016-05-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/91100 title WordPress < 4.5.0 Multiple Vulnerabilities NASL family Debian Local Security Checks NASL id DEBIAN_DSA-3681.NASL description Several vulnerabilities were discovered in wordpress, a web blogging tool, which could allow remote attackers to compromise a site via cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery, path traversal, or bypass restrictions. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 93835 published 2016-10-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/93835 title Debian DSA-3681-1 : wordpress - security update
References
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.5
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3681
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036594
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036594
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=4.5
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=4.5
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8473
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8473