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WordPress 2.0.5 Charset Decoding SQL Injection Vulnerability (0.6.2 - 2.0.5)

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 implementation. WordPress versions 2.0.5 and prior are vulnerable.

Remediation

Update to WordPress version 2.0.6 or latest

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21907/exploit

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3095/

http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_022007.141.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/23595/

https://wordpress.org/news/2007/01/wordpress-206/

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Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2007-0107 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

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