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Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:43:23 +0000 (UTC)
From: security curmudgeon <jericho@...rition.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: Wordpress 2.8.6
On Sun, 15 Nov 2009, Alex Legler wrote:
: Wordpress released an update, fixing 2 issues:
:
: "2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered,
: logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted
: authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.
:
: The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press This discovered by
: Benjamin Flesch. The second problem, discovered by Dawid Golunski, is
: an issue with sanitizing uploaded file names that can be exploited in
: certain Apache configurations. Thanks to Benjamin and Dawid for finding
: and reporting these."
:
: from
: http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/wordpress-2-8-6-security-release/
:
: I believe these are the matching tickets:
: Issue 1: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11119
: Issue 2: http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11122
OSVDB Disclosure Title
59958 2009-11-12 WordPress /wp-includes/functions.php wp_check_filetype() Function File Upload Arbitrary Code Execution
59959 2009-11-12 WordPress press-this.php Unspecified XSS
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