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TITLE:
WordPress "cat" Directory Traversal Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29949

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29949/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
WordPress 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/6745/

DESCRIPTION:
Sandor Attila Gerendi has discovered a vulnerability in WordPress,
which can potentially be exploited by malicious users to compromise a
vulnerable system.

Input passed via the "cat" parameter to index.php is not properly
sanitised in the "get_category_template()" function in
wp-includes/theme.php before being used to include files in
template-loader.php. This can be exploited to include arbitrary PHP
files from local resources via directory traversal attacks.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary PHP code, but
requires privileges to store PHP files on an affected system and that
WordPress is installed on a Windows platform.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.3.3.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the SVN repository.
http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/7586

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Sandor Attila Gerendi

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