Archive for January, 2009

WordPress Security Predictions in 2009

Okay, deep breath, in 2008, we saw Cross-Site Scripting, SQL injection, SQL truncation, Cookie generation weaknesses, Directory Traversal, Arbitrary File Uploads and Cross Site Request Forgery attacks, to name a few?

A mouth full but it made for a very interesting 2008 case study of security developments in a popular open source PHP application.

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WordPress <= 2.6.3 XSS Vulnerability

Jeremias Reith has published the advisory to Bugtraq which includes a proof of concept exploit that may allow an unauthenticated attacker access to your blog.

Product affected: WordPress
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