National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-3639

Overview

WordPress before 2.2.2 allows remote attackers to redirect visitors to other websites and potentially obtain sensitive information via (1) the _wp_http_referer parameter to wp-pass.php, related to the wp_get_referer function in wp-includes/functions.php; and possibly other vectors related to (2) wp-includes/pluggable.php and (3) the wp_nonce_ays function in wp-includes/functions.php.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: wordpress-wppass-security-bypass(35272)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/35272

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070705 Redirection Vulnerability in wp-pass.php, WordPress 2.2.1

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/472885/100/0/threaded

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 40802

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/40802

External Source: DEBIAN

Name: DSA-1564

Hyperlink:http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1564

External Source: SREASON

Name: 2869

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2869

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30013

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30013