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TITLE:
Wordpress Pingback Information Disclosure Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23912

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23912/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information

WHERE:
>From remote

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

DESCRIPTION:
Blake Matheny has reported a vulnerability in Wordpress, which can
potentially be exploited by malicious people to disclose sensitive
information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of
pingbacks. This can be exploited to determine the existence of
certain files or to disclose certain content of arbitrary files.

Successful disclosure of certain content requires that automatic
pingbacks are configured to be included as comments.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Blake Matheny

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