PT-2013-3593 · WordPress · Wordpress

Published 2013-07-01 · Updated 2013-09-10 · CVE-2013-2203

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information when the uploads directory forbids write access. This is achieved through an invalid upload request, which reveals the absolute path in an XMLHttpRequest error message.

Recommendations For 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 uploads directory to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-2203

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/DEBIAN-CVE-2013-2203 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-2203 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2013-0198 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2013-2203 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-2203 · Security Note
• 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-2013-2203 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=973254 · Note