phpWebSite: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background

phpWebSite is a content management system written in PHP.

Description

phpWebSite fails to sanitize input sent to the XML-RPC server using the “POST” method. Other unspecified vulnerabilities have been discovered by Diabolic Crab of Hackers Center.

Impact

A remote attacker could exploit the XML-RPC vulnerability to execute arbitrary PHP script code by sending specially crafted XML data to phpWebSite. The undisclosed vulnerabilities do have an unknown impact.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All phpWebSite users should upgrade to the latest available version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=www-app/phpwebsite-0.10.1-r1"