National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5278

Overview

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the self_link function in in the RSS Feed Generator (wp-includes/feed.php) for WordPress before 2.6.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Host header (HTTP_HOST variable).

Description

http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/ The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php from the 2.6.5 release package.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-10468

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00176.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-10483

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00000.html

External Source: XF

Name: wordpress-feed-xss(46882)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46882

External Source: BID

Name: 32476

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32476

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20081125 WordPress XSS vulnerability in RSS Feed Generator

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498652

External Source: SREASON

Name: 4662

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4662

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32966

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32966

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32882

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32882

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 50214

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/50214