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CVE-2007-1897

SQL injection vulnerability in xmlrpc (xmlrpc.php) in WordPress 2.1.2, and probably earlier, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a string parameter value in an XML RPC mt.setPostCategories method call, related to the post_id variable.

Published

2007-04-09T20:19:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 6.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.0

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-89

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	wordpress	wordpress	≤ 2.1.2	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	2.1	Yes
Application	wordpress	wordpress	2.1.1	Yes

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/24751 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/25108 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4091 ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1285 ([email protected])
http://www.notsosecure.com/folder2/2007/04/03/wordpress-212-xmlrpc-security-issues/ Exploit, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23294 Exploit, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1245 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3656 ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/24751 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/25108 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4091 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1285 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.notsosecure.com/folder2/2007/04/03/wordpress-212-xmlrpc-security-issues/ Exploit, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23294 Exploit, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1245 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3656 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)