Archive for June, 2006
WordPress Remote Command Execution
by paul on Jun.03, 2006, under Computing
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The SANS Institute has unconfirmed reports that all WordPress version (2.0.2 and prior) are vulnerable to a remote command execution vulnerability and an IP spoofing attack. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker can cause servers which open user registration or open account information modification to execute arbitrary commands with the privilege of the web server process. |
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| A flaw in the processing of client request headers allows the attacker to spoof their source IP in the WordPress logs, although web server logs should remain unaffected. | |
| Updated Saturday June 3rd | |
| WordPress 2.0.3 is now available for download to address this exploit. The upgrade worked flawlessly in less than 5 minutes. | |
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