Re: Path Disclosure - Wordpress 2.1.2

[jm <jm@hcn.com.au>]

"All sites"? That's a bit of a stretch. Maybe you should rephrase that
to "All sites with 'display_errors = On'" in their php.ini, which by the
way is disabled in php.ini-recommended in 4.4.6 and 5.2.1.

There's even a comment in php.ini* about it:

"Print out errors (as a part of the output).  For production web sites,
you're strongly encouraged to turn this feature off, and use error
logging instead (see below).  Keeping display_errors enabled on
a production web site may reveal security information to end users,
such as file paths on your Webserver, your database schema or other
information."

--jason

lj@subjectzero.net wrote:
> Product : Wordpress 2.1.2
> Vulnerability Details :
> All the sites running on the latest version of wordpress 2.1.2 are exposed to a 
> full path disclosure vulnerability.
>
> Proof of Concept:
> http://www.anysite.com/Path_to_wordpress/wp-includes/vars.php
>
> Error Returned:
>
> Fatal error: Call to undefined function get_option() in 
> /home/santoshp/public_html/wp-includes/vars.php on line 92
>
> Location:
> www.indiaesecure.com/exploits.htm/wp212.txt