National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-1796
Original release date:04/17/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the paging links functionality in template-functions-links.php in Wordpress 1.5.2, and possibly other versions before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML to Internet Explorer users via the request URI ($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']).
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
Solution
The vulnerability manifests itself only when viewed by IE.
This vulnerability is addressed in the following product release:
Wordpress 2.0.1-1}
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External Source: MISC
Name: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/1686
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=328909
Type: Patch Information
