Description

WordPress is prone to an SQL injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query. Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database. WordPress version 2.3.1 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

Remediation

Update to WordPress version 2.5 or latest

References

http://www.abelcheung.org/advisory/20071210-wordpress-charset.txt

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484828

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4721/

http://secunia.com/advisories/28005/

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2007-6318 CWE-89 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Tags

Missing Update SQL Injection