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Re: Path Disclosure - Wordpress 2.1.2


From: jm <jm () hcn com au>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:12:17 +1000

"All sites"? That's a bit of a stretch. Maybe you should rephrase that
to "All sites with 'display_errors = On'" in their php.ini, which by the
way is disabled in php.ini-recommended in 4.4.6 and 5.2.1.

There's even a comment in php.ini* about it:

"Print out errors (as a part of the output).  For production web sites,
you're strongly encouraged to turn this feature off, and use error
logging instead (see below).  Keeping display_errors enabled on
a production web site may reveal security information to end users,
such as file paths on your Webserver, your database schema or other
information."

--jason

lj () subjectzero net wrote:
Product : Wordpress 2.1.2
Vulnerability Details :
All the sites running on the latest version of wordpress 2.1.2 are exposed to a full path disclosure vulnerability.

Proof of Concept:
http://www.anysite.com/Path_to_wordpress/wp-includes/vars.php

Error Returned:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_option() in /home/santoshp/public_html/wp-includes/vars.php on line 92

Location:
www.indiaesecure.com/exploits.htm/wp212.txt




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