Tuesday, April 29, 2008

WordPress 2.5.1 Fixes 2 Vulnerabilities And A Bunch of Bugs

There's been released a new version of WordPress which contains bug fixes and also fixes for a couple of found vulnerabilities.

First one of these makes it possible to bypass administrator access control by using appropriate cookie. The vulnerability provides also a possibility to execute PHP code as the web server user. Vulnerability can be used only if a WordPress blog is configured to freely permit account creation.

Second one of the found vulnerabilities is cross site scripting (XSS) type vulnerability. Incomplete input checking provides a possibility to execute script code in user's browser.


Vulnerable versions for above meantioned vulnerabilities:
- WordPress 2.5 and possible older versions

Solution:
- Update version to 2.5.1

More information can be read here.

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