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| Versions Affected | Details | Risk |
| WordPress = 2.3 | XSS injection in edit-post-rows.php, needs register_globals on (More) | MEDIUM |
| WordPress <= 2.3 | Unregistered can add Links to Blogroll (More) | LOW |
| WordPress <= 2.2.2 and WordPress MU <= 1.2.4 | Remote SQL Injection in xmlrpc.php (More) | HIGH |
| WordPress <= 2.2.2 | User can post arbitrary HTML without needed rights (More) | MEDIUM |
| WordPress <= 2.2.1 | Redirection Vulnerability in wp-pass.php (More) | MEDIUM |
| WordPress <= 2.2 and WordPress MU <= 1.2.2 | Arbitrary File Upload (More) | HIGH |
| WordPress <= 2.2 | Remote shell injection in PHPMailer (More) | HIGH |
| WordPress <= 2.2 | Unauthorised Comments Disclosure (more) | LOW |
| WordPress <= 2.2 | xmlrpc.php authenticated SQL Injection (more) | MEDIUM |
| WordPress <= 2.1.3 | admin-ajax.php SQL Injection (more) | HIGH |
| WordPress <= 2.1.3 | Akismet XSS (more) | HIGH |
| WordPress <= 2.1.2 | PHP_SELF XSS (more) | HIGH |
| WordPress <= 2.1.2 | XMLRPC SQL Injection (more) | HIGH |
| WordPress 2.1.1 | Backdoored Version (more) | HIGH |
| WordPress <= 2.1.0 | Comments XSS (more) | HIGH |
| WordPress <= 2.0.7 | Templates.php XSS (more) | HIGH |
| WordPress <= 2.0.6 | wp-trackback.php SQL Injection (more) | HIGH |
| WordPress <= 2.0.5 | Template CSRF Vulnerability (more) | HIGH |
| WordPress <= 2.0.3 | wp_register XSS through user_email parameter (more) | MEDIUM |
| WordPress <= 2.0.2 | cache_file php injection (more) | HIGH |
| WordPress <= 2.0.0 | wp_register XSS through user_login parameter (more) | MEDIUM |
| WordPress <= 1.5.1.3 | Command Execution (more) | HIGH |
| WordPress <= 1.2.2 | Multiple XSS, SQL Injection (more) | HIGH |
| Versions Affected | Details | Fixed Version | Risk |
| WordSpew <= 3.72 | SQL Injection Vulnerability (more) | WordSpew 3.72 | HIGH |
| BackupWordpress <0.4.3 | Remote File Inclusion (more) | BackupWordPress 0.4.3 | HIGH |
| FeedSmith <= 2.2 | CSRF possible (more) | FeedSmith 2.3 | HIGH |
| wp-feedstats < WordPress 2.4 | Persistent XSS Vulnerability (more) | wp-feedstats 2.4 | HIGH |
| wp-db-backup < WordPress 2.0.4 | Directory Traversal Vulnerability (more) | WordPress > 2.0.5 | HIGH |
| wp-pagenavi < 2.11 | XSS Vulnerability (more) | 2.11 | HIGH |
| WP-Stats < 2.01 | SQL Injection Vulnerability (more) | 2.01 | HIGH |
| WordPress Democracy <= 2.0 | XSS Vulnerability (more) | 2.0.1 | HIGH |
| WordPress myFlash <= 1.00 | Remote File Include(more) | None found | HIGH |
| WordPress myGallery <= 1.4b4 | Remote File Include (more) | 1.4b7 | HIGH |
| WordPress wordTube <= 1.43 | wpPATH Remote File Inclusion (more) | 1.44 | HIGH |
| WordPress wp-Table <= 1.43 | Remote File Include (more) | 1.45 | HIGH |
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Would be great to be able to subscribe to the updates of this post somehow. Is there a way?
Mikael, we usually do release an update post on the main blog when it has been updated. So if you subscribe to our main feed you’ll know. Thanks.
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Hallo Tobias, die Liste wird im Moment nicht aktualisiert. Wird jedoch in kürze durch einen neuen Service ersetzt, welche dann auch die aktuellsten Sicherheitslücken listet und mehr Funktionen bietet.
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If any new vulnerabilities become listed, then it could report specifically which parts of your Wordpress should be deactivated / upgraded ?
James, great feedback. We were working on something like this its kinda gone dead. I’ll check with the guys.