<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200606-08"> <title>WordPress: Arbitrary command execution</title> <synopsis> WordPress fails to sufficiently check the format of cached username data. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">wordpress</product> <announced>2006-06-09</announced> <revised count="02">2006-06-10</revised> <bug>134397</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="www-apps/wordpress" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.0.3</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.3</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based content management and publishing system. </p> </background> <description> <p> rgod discovered that WordPress insufficiently checks the format of cached username data. </p> </description> <impact type="high"> <p> An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands by sending a specially crafted username. As of Wordpress 2.0.2 the user data cache is disabled by default. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There are no known workarounds at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All WordPress users should upgrade to the latest available version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-apps/wordpress-2.0.3"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2667">CVE-2006-2667</uri> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2702">CVE-2006-2702</uri> </references> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-06-06T16:40:51Z"> jaervosz </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-06-06T17:50:23Z"> jaervosz </metadata> </glsa>