Wordpress Multiple Parameter Cross Site Scripting and SQL Injection Issues


Description   Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in Wordpress, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL queries and scripting code.
The first issue is caused by input validation errors in various functions when processing user-supplied parameters (e.g. "post_type"), which could be exploited to conduct SQL injection attacks.
The second vulnerability is caused by an input validation error in the "wp-admin/admin-functions.php" script when processing the "no_filter" parameter, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions and post arbitrary HTML data.
     
Vulnerable Products   Vulnerable Software:
Wordpress versions prior to 2.2.3Wordpress MU versions prior to 1.2.5a
     
Solution   Upgrade to Wordpress version 2.2.3 : http://wordpress.org/latest.zipUpgrade to Wordpress MU version 1.2.5a : http://mu.wordpress.org/latest.zip
     
CVE   CVE-2007-4894
CVE-2007-4893
     
References   http://wordpress.org/development/2007/09/wordpress-223/
http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-sql-injection-advisory.html
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4720
     
Vulnerability Manager Detection   No
     
IPS Protection  
ASQ Engine alarm Available Since
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OR statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious SELECT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious combination of 'OR' or 'AND' statements in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : possible version probing in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious CREATE statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious CREATE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UPDATE statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious UNION statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious OPENQUERY statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious shutdown statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UNION SELECT statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious DROP statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : possible database version probing
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious INSERT statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OR statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious UPDATE SET statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious EXEC statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious SELECT statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious INSERT statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious DROP statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious OPENROWSET statement in data
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - GET : suspicious EXEC statement in URL
3.2.0
SQL injection Prevention - POST : suspicious HAVING statement in data
3.2.0
     


 
 
 
 
 Risk level 
Moderate 

 Vulnerability First Public Report Date 
2007-09-13 

 Target Type 
Server 

 Possible exploit 
Local & Remote