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The last few months has been rough for Wordpress programmers, from a security point of view.
Wordpress is the most common blog\content management system on the internet today and because of that it has become one of the favorite targets for attackers\security researchers.
A quick search will show you how bad the situation is, here, here and here.
Some of the vulnerabilities are really simple, but the most interesting ones are the complex vulnerabilities. the Trackback UTF-7 SQL Injection found by Stefan Esser and the wp-trackback.php Remote SQL Injection found by rgod for example.
If you’re a PHP programmer I suggest you download old versions of Wordpress and look at the vulnerable codes and exploits, I promise you’ll learn a thing or two..
Another spicy piece of news is the backdoored Wordpress systems (v2.1.1) story, occurred earlier this month. that one really made me laugh :D

So what about Wordpress v2.1.2 (latest), secure right? I don’t think so…
Full path disclosure vulnerabilities (by Dedi Dwianto)
Redirection vulnerability in wp-login.php (by Metaeye Security Group)

UPDATE:
xmlrpc.php Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability (exploit) by NotSoSecure
PHP_Self Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (exploit) by Alexander Concha and Jungsonn.

Solution: Upgrade to Wordpress 2.1.3.

Categories: Web Application Security

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