metadata/glsa/glsa-200608-19.xml

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<glsa id="200608-19">
  <title>WordPress: Privilege escalation</title>
  <synopsis>
    A flaw in WordPress allows registered WordPress users to elevate
    privileges.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">wordpress</product>
  <announced>August 10, 2006</announced>
  <revised>December 13, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>142142</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="www-apps/wordpress" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.0.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based multiuser blogging system.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    The WordPress developers have confirmed a vulnerability in capability
    checking for plugins.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    By exploiting a flaw, a user can circumvent WordPress access
    restrictions when using plugins. The actual impact depends on the
    configuration of WordPress and may range from trivial to critical,
    possibly even the execution of arbitrary PHP code.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All WordPress users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=www-apps/wordpress-2.0.4&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3389">CVE-2006-3389</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3390">CVE-2006-3390</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-4028">CVE-2006-4028</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:38:11 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Tue, 08 Aug 2006 02:48:29 +0000">
    dizzutch
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:15:28 +0000">
    frilled
  </metadata>
</glsa>