Vulnerabilities (CVE)

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/admin.php in NextGEN Gallery 0.96 and earlier plugin for Wordpress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the picture description field in a page edit action.

wp-includes/vars.php in Wordpress before 2.2.3 does not properly extract the current path from the PATH_INFO ($PHP_SELF), which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions for certain pages.

wp-admin/user-edit.php in WordPress before 2.0.5 allows remote authenticated users to read the metadata of an arbitrary user via a modified user_id parameter.

Multiple PHP remote file inclusion vulnerabilities in the BackUpWordPress 0.4.2b and earlier plugin for WordPress allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the bkpwp_plugin_path parameter to (1) plugins/BackUp/Archive.php; and (2) Predicate.php, (3) Writer.php, (4) Reader.php, and other unspecified scripts under plugins/BackUp/Archive/.

Wordpress before 2.8.3 allows remote attackers to gain privileges via a direct request to (1) admin-footer.php, (2) edit-category-form.php, (3) edit-form-advanced.php, (4) edit-form-comment.php, (5) edit-link-category-form.php, (6) edit-link-form.php, (7) edit-page-form.php, and (8) edit-tag-form.php in wp-admin/.

wp-login.php in WordPress 2.8.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to force a password reset for the first user in the database, possibly the administrator, via a key[] array variable in a resetpass (aka rp) action, which bypasses a check that assumes that $key is not an array.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/templates.php in WordPress 2.0.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the file parameter. NOTE: some sources have reported this as a vulnerability in the get_file_description function in wp-admin/admin-functions.php.

SQL injection vulnerability in ahah/sf-profile.php in the Yellow Swordfish Simple Forum module for Wordpress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the u parameter. NOTE: this issue was disclosed by an unreliable researcher, so the details might be incorrect.

WP-Cumulus Plug-in 1.20 for WordPress, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted request to wp-cumulus.php, probably without parameters, which reveals the installation path in an error message.

WordPress and WordPress MU before 2.8.1 allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a direct request to wp-settings.php, which reveals the installation path in an error message.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the administrator interface in WordPress before 2.8.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a comment author URL.

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in image_processing.php in the e-Commerce Plugin 3.4 and earlier for Wordpress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by uploading a file with an executable extension, then accessing it via a direct request to the file in wp-content/plugins/wp-shopping-cart/.

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in (1) wp-app.php and (2) app.php in WordPress 2.2.1 and WordPress MU 1.2.3 allows remote authenticated users to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code via unspecified vectors, possibly related to the wp_postmeta table and the use of custom fields in normal (non-attachment) posts. NOTE: this issue reportedly exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2007-3543.

SQL injection vulnerability in stnl_iframe.php in the ShiftThis Newsletter (st_newsletter) plugin for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the newsletter parameter, a different vector than CVE-2008-0683.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress 2.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

SQL injection vulnerability in BTE_RW_webajax.php in the Related Sites plugin 2.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the guid parameter.

WordPress allows remote attackers to determine the existence of arbitrary files, and possibly read portions of certain files, via pingback service calls with a source URI that corresponds to a local pathname, which triggers different fault codes for existing and non-existing files, and in certain configurations causes a brief file excerpt to be published as a blog comment.

The wp_remote_fopen function in WordPress before 2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth or thread consumption) via pingback service calls with a source URI that corresponds to a large file, which triggers a long download session without a timeout constraint.

WordPress 2.7.1 places the username of a post's author in an HTML comment, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the HTML source.

WordPress 2.2.x and 2.3.x allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an invalid p parameter in an rss2 action to the default URI, which reveals the full path and the SQL database structure.

The (1) get_edit_post_link and (2) get_edit_comment_link functions in wp-includes/link-template.php in WordPress before 2.6.1 do not force SSL communication in the intended situations, which might allow remote attackers to gain administrative access by sniffing the network for a cookie.

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in the WP-Forum plugin before 2.4 for WordPress allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via (1) the search_max parameter in a search action to the default URI, related to wpf.class.php; (2) the forum parameter to an unspecified component, related to wpf.class.php; (3) the topic parameter in a viewforum action to the default URI, related to the remove_topic function in wpf.class.php; or the id parameter in a (4) editpost or (5) viewtopic act ... Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in the WP-Forum plugin before 2.4 for WordPress allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via (1) the search_max parameter in a search action to the default URI, related to wpf.class.php; (2) the forum parameter to an unspecified component, related to wpf.class.php; (3) the topic parameter in a viewforum action to the default URI, related to the remove_topic function in wpf.class.php; or the id parameter in a (4) editpost or (5) viewtopic action to the default URI, related to wpf-post.php.

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Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in WordPress 2.5.1 and earlier might allow remote authenticated administrators to upload and execute arbitrary PHP files via the Upload section in the Write Tabs area of the dashboard.

WordPress before 2.0.5 does not properly store a profile containing a string representation of a serialized object, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a string that represents a (1) malformed or (2) large serialized object, because the object triggers automatic unserialization for display.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WordPress 2.3.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) inviteemail parameter in an invite action to wp-admin/users.php and the (2) to parameter in a sent action to wp-admin/invites.php.

wp-admin/admin-functions.php in Wordpress before 2.2.3 and Wordpress multi-user (MU) before 1.2.5a does not properly verify the unfiltered_html privilege, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via modified data to (1) post.php or (2) page.php with a no_filter field.

SQL injection vulnerability in fmoblog.php in the fMoblog plugin 2.1 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id parameter to index.php. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in Wordpress before 2.2.3 and Wordpress multi-user (MU) before 1.2.5a allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the post_type parameter to the pingback.extensions.getPingbacks method in the XMLRPC interface, and other unspecified parameters related to "early database escaping" and missing validation of "query string like parameters."

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wpcommentremix.php in WP Comment Remix plugin before 1.4.4 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) replytotext, (2) quotetext, (3) originallypostedby, (4) sep, (5) maxtags, (6) tagsep, (7) tagheadersep, (8) taglabel, and (9) tagheaderlabel parameters.

WordPress 2.1.1, as downloaded from some official distribution sites during February and March 2007, contains an externally introduced backdoor that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via (1) an eval injection vulnerability in the ix parameter to wp-includes/feed.php, and (2) an untrusted passthru call in the iz parameter to wp-includes/theme.php.

WordPress 2.0.6, and 2.1Alpha 3 (SVN:4662), does not properly verify that the m parameter value has the string data type, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via an invalid m[] parameter, as demonstrated by obtaining the path, and obtaining certain SQL information such as the table prefix.

wp-login.php in WordPress allows remote attackers to redirect authenticated users to other websites and potentially obtain sensitive information via the redirect_to parameter.

Unrestricted file upload vulnerability in the wp_check_filetype function in wp-includes/functions.php in WordPress before 2.8.6, when a certain configuration of the mod_mime module in the Apache HTTP Server is enabled, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by posting an attachment with a multiple-extension filename, and then accessing this attachment via a direct request to a wp-content/uploads/ pathname, as demonstrated by a .php.jpg filename.

The XML-RPC implementation (xmlrpc.php) in WordPress before 2.3.3, when registration is enabled, allows remote attackers to edit posts of other blog users via unknown vectors.

Wordpress before 2.8.3 does not check capabilities for certain actions, which allows remote attackers to make unauthorized edits or additions via a direct request to (1) edit-comments.php, (2) edit-pages.php, (3) edit.php, (4) edit-category-form.php, (5) edit-link-category-form.php, (6) edit-tag-form.php, (7) export.php, (8) import.php, or (9) link-add.php in wp-admin/.

SQL injection vulnerability in results.php in the Pyrmont plugin 2 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id parameter.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress before 2.6, SVN development versions only, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

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. NOTE: this might be the same as CVE-2006-5705.1.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the self_link function in in the RSS Feed Generator (wp-includes/feed.php) for WordPress before 2.6.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Host header (HTTP_HOST variable).

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WordPress 2.0.9 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the popuptitle parameter to (1) wp-admin/post.php or (2) wp-admin/page-new.php.