From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Jul 04 2006 - 05:17:05 CDT

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TITLE:
WordPress "paged" Disclosure of Table Prefix Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20928

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/20928/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
WordPress 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/6745/

DESCRIPTION:
zero has discovered a weakness in WordPress, which can be exploited
by malicious people to disclose system information.

The problem is that SQL error messages are returned to the user. This
can be exploited to disclose the configured table prefix via an
invalid "paged" parameter passed in index.php.

Example:
http://[host]/index.php?paged=-1

It is also possible to disclose the full path to certain scripts by
accessing them directly.

The weakness has been confirmed in version 2.0.3. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Edit the source to ensure that SQL error messages are not displayed
to users.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
zero, Moroccan Security Team

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