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Hello Bugtraq!
I want to warn you about vulnerabilities in WordPress.
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Advisory: Vulnerabilities in WordPress
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URL: http://websecurity.com.ua/4016/
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Timeline:
02.03.2010 - found the vulnerabilities.
02.03.2010 - didn't informed developers. After I informed WP developers
about multiple vulnerabilities in WordPress in December 2007 and they
ignored them - some didn't fix and some hiddenly fixed, without thanking me
and referencing me (they even didn't mention about those fixed holes in
release notes on official site) - starting from 2008 I never more inform
them about vulnerabilities in WordPress. These holes were posted to Bugtraq
(http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/485786/100/0/threaded).
09.03.2010 - disclosed at my site.
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Details:
These are Brute Force and Insufficient Authorization vulnerabilities.
Earlier in 2008 I already wrote about Brute Force vulnerability in WordPress
(http://websecurity.com.ua/2007/), which was found by Kad already in 2007
(http://securityvulns.ru/Pdocument580.html). And as I found at 02.03.2010 in
WordPress 2.9.2 this vulnerability still wasn't fixed. And also I found new
vulnerabilities in WP.
Brute Force:
There is no protection from picking up of a password (from Brute Force
attacks) in function of protecting pages/posts by a password.
Insufficient Authorization:
At every page/post in WP it's possible to set a password and these passwords
can be equal. But function of accessing by a password writes global cookie,
which works for the whole site. And so, after setting the password one time
for one page/post, it's possible to see all protected pages/posts (with the
same password, even without knowing that the password matches), because at a
request to them the access will be granted automatically.
Vulnerable are WordPress 2.9.2 and previous versions (all 2.x versions). I
tested in different versions of WP, particularly in 2.0.11 and 2.9.2.
Best wishes & regards,
MustLive
Administrator of Websecurity web site
http://websecurity.com.ua