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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200606-08">
<title>WordPress: Arbitrary command execution</title>
<synopsis>
WordPress fails to sufficiently check the format of cached username data.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">wordpress</product>
<announced>2006-06-09</announced>
<revised count="02">2006-06-10</revised>
<bug>134397</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="www-apps/wordpress" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">2.0.3</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">2.0.3</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
WordPress is a PHP and MySQL based content management and publishing
system.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
rgod discovered that WordPress insufficiently checks the format of
cached username data.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="high">
<p>
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary
commands by sending a specially crafted username. As of Wordpress 2.0.2
the user data cache is disabled by default.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There are no known workarounds at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All WordPress users should upgrade to the latest available version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=www-apps/wordpress-2.0.3"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2667">CVE-2006-2667</uri>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-2702">CVE-2006-2702</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-06-06T16:40:51Z">
jaervosz
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-06-06T17:50:23Z">
jaervosz
</metadata>
</glsa>