PT-2015-7053 · WordPress · Wordpress

Marc-Alexandre Montpas · Published 2015-08-10 · Updated 2017-09-21 · CVE-2015-5730

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 4.2.4

Description The issue concerns a timing side-channel attack. It is related to the sanitize widget instance function, which does not use a constant-time comparison for widgets. This allows remote attackers to conduct an attack by measuring the delay before inequality is calculated.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.2.4, update to version 4.2.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-5730

DSA-3332-1

MGASA-2015-0309

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 30

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5732 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-5730 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4730 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-11935 · Security Note
• https://wordpress.org/news/2015/08/wordpress-4-2-4-security-and-maintenance-release · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5622 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3332-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3332-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3332 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-5730 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5734 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5731 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5730 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2015-5730 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0309.html · Security Note