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PHP Blogging Apps Open to XML-RPC Exploits

Posted by Zonk on from the batten-down-the-hatches dept.

miller60 writes "A bunch of popular PHP-based blogging and content management apps are vulnerable to a security hole in the PHP libraries handling XML-RPC, which could allow a server compromise. Affected apps include Wordpress, Drupal, PostNuke, Serendipity, phpAdsNew, phpWiki and many more. The presence of the security hole in a large number of programs is among the factors leading the Internet Storm Center to warn that the environment is ripe for a major Internet security event."

3 of 166 comments (clear)

  1. How to patch PHP/PEAR by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the command line:

    pear clear-cache
    pear upgrade XML_RPC

  2. this is news? by xWastedMindx · · Score: 5, Informative

    wordpress released a fix for this on June 29. Changelog for 1.5.1.3

  3. Re:Makes me happy by Sepodati · · Score: 5, Informative

    I read the vulnerability which links to the sourceforge.net page that has the source code of this "library". It's a PHP script that you include() into other PHP scripts to use the functions/methods defined. The developer of this PHP script used eval() in an incorrect manner.

    Unless you have another article that shows the PHP XML-RPC Functions to be vulnerabile, this is not a PHP vulnerability.

    ---John Holmes...