Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CSRF protection scheme in WordPress before 2.0.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a CSRF attack with an invalid token and quote characters or HTML tags in URL variable names, which are not properly handled when WordPress generates a new link to verify the request.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | wordpress | 2.0.6-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | wordpress | 2.0.6-1 | — |
| Debian 12 | wordpress | 2.0.6-1 | — |
References
- 2114 third-party-advisory
- 20070105 Advisory 01/2007: WordPress CSRF Protection XSS Vulnerability mailing-list
- http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/wordpress-206/
- 23595 third-party-advisory
- 33397 vdb-entry
- ADV-2007-0061 vdb-entry
- 21893 vdb-entry
- http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_012007.140.html