{"id":2781,"date":"2013-07-03T21:20:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T21:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2013\/07\/03\/wordpress-vulnerabilities\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T23:12:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T03:12:44","slug":"wordpress-vulnerabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/wordpress-vulnerabilities\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Vulnerabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, new vulnerabilities affecting WordPress have been identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alert\">All customers who use WordPress are advised to upgrade to the latest version (3.5.2) immediately. You can view our full walk-through guide on <a href=\"\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/update-wordpress-from-admin-dashboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Updating WordPress<\/a> here in our Support Center.<\/p>\n<h2>Below is a list and explanation of the vulnerabilities:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>CVE-2013-2173<\/strong><br \/>  A denial of service was found in the way wordpress performs hash computation when checking password for protected posts. An attacker supplying carefully crafted input as a password could make the platform use excessive CPU usage<\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li><strong>CVE-2013-2199<\/strong><br \/>  Multiple server-side requests forgery (SSRF) vulnerabilities were found in the HTTP API. This is related to CVE-2013-0235, which was specific to SSRF in pingback requests and was fixed in 3.5.1<\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li><strong>CVE-2013-2201<\/strong><br \/>  Multiple cross-side scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities due to badly escaped input were found in the media files and plugins upload forms<\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li><strong>CVE-2013-2202<\/strong><br \/>  XML External Entity Injection (XXE) vulnerability via oEmbed responses<\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li><strong>CVE-2013-2203<\/strong><br \/>  A Full path disclosure (FPD) was found in the file upload mechanism. If the upload directory is not writable, the error message returned includes the full directory path<\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li><strong>CVE-2013-2203<\/strong><br \/>  A Full path disclosure (FPD) was found in the file upload mechanism. If the upload directory is not writable, the error message returned includes the full directory path<\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li><strong>CVE-2013-2204<\/strong><br \/>  Content spoofing via flash applet in the embedded tinyMCE media plugin<\/li>\n<p> <\/p>\n<li><strong>CVE-2013-2205<\/strong><br \/>  Cross-domain XSS in the embedded SWFupload uploader<\/li>\n<p> <\/ul>\n<p>You can read the <a href=\"https:\/\/codex.wordpress.org\/Version_3.5.2\">Official WordPress Release notes<\/a> regarding this latest update on WordPress.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, new vulnerabilities affecting WordPress have been identified. All customers who use WordPress are advised to upgrade to the latest version (3.5.2) immediately. You can view our full walk-through guide on Updating WordPress here in our Support Center. 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