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[SA12773] Wordpress "wp-login.php" HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Oct 11 2004 - 03:22:39 CDT

TITLE:
Wordpress "wp-login.php" HTTP Response Splitting Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA12773

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/12773/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Wordpress 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/3978/

DESCRIPTION:
Chaotic Evil has reported a vulnerability in Wordpress, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion and
cross-site scripting attacks.

Input passed to the "text" parameter in "wp-login.php" can be
exploited to inject malicious characters into HTTP headers. This may
allow execution of arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser
session in context of an affected site.

This can also be exploited to perform web cache poisoning.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.2. Other versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.2.1.
http://wordpress.org/download/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Chaotic Evil

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://wordpress.org/development/2004/10/wp-121/

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