[CentOS] WordPress possilbe SQL injections [was: SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!]
Leonard den Ottolander
leonard at den.ottolander.nl
Tue Dec 21 12:44:50 UTC 2010
Hello Jerry,
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 15:34 -0800, Jerry Franz wrote:
> And in an exact example of this, today I needed to update some WordPress
> (WP) installations. Only, for "some reason" the FTP based autoupdater
> didn't work today.
Do you feel comfortable letting a web application update itself using
FTP or even SSH credentials?
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/filesystem-credentials-very-bad-practice-and-totally-unnecessary
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659294
The patch shown in
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16625
prompted me to try a
$ grep -r "\=\ \%s\"" *
in the web root of a WordPress installation. The matches are a bunch of
possible SQL injections. Haven't checked the actual code paths, but note
how all these strings are unescaped and potentially allow the addition
of extra statements using ';'.
Regards,
Leonard.
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