PT-2013-3591 · WordPress · Wordpress

Published 2013-07-01 · Updated 2013-09-10 · CVE-2013-2201

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 3.5.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via several vectors, including uploads of media files, editing of media files, installation of plugins, updates to plugins, installation of themes, or updates to themes. This can be achieved through multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities.

Recommendations For WordPress versions prior to 3.5.2, update to version 3.5.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the media file upload, editing, plugin installation, plugin update, theme installation, and theme update features until a patch is available.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-2201

DSA-2718-1

MGASA-2013-0198

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 13

• http://wordpress.org/news/2013/06/wordpress-3-5-2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2718 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2013-0198.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-2201 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2201 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2201 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2013-0198 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2201 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10596 · Note
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.2 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976784 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2201 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=973254 · Note