PT-2012-2019 · WordPress · Wordpress

Henri Salo · Published 2012-06-27 · Updated 2012-06-28 · CVE-2011-4957

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 3.1.1

Description The issue concerns a function that does not properly check URLs before passing them to a library, allowing remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a comment with a crafted URL that triggers many recursive calls.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.1.1, update to version 3.1.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2011-4957

DSA-2470-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 12

• http://debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2470 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2011-4957 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2011-4957 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4957 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4957 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/44038 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49138 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4957 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/17 · Note
• http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16892 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/19/6 · Note
• http://wordpress.org/news/2011/04/wordpress-3-1-1 · Note