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WordPress 2.3.0-4.7.4 - Authenticated SQL injection

Description

Due bad solution of the database abstraction library WordPress exposes itself towards SQL Injection and validation bypass. Beside WordPress itself this issue have huge impact towards complete WP ecosystem.

Up to WordPress 4.8.1 is vulnerable, but this time attack is dependent from another plugins / themes / setup.

Affects WordPress

3.8.1
Fixed in version 4.7.5
3.8
Fixed in version 4.7.5
3.7.1
Fixed in version 4.7.5
3.6
Fixed in version 4.7.5
3.5.2
Fixed in version 4.7.5
3.5.1
Fixed in version 4.7.5
3.5
Fixed in version 4.7.5
3.4.2
Fixed in version 4.7.5
3.4.1
Fixed in version 4.7.5
3.4
Fixed in version 4.7.5

References

URL
https://medium.com/websec/wordpress-sqli-bbb2afcc8e94
URL
https://wordpress.org/news/2017/09/wordpress-4-8-2-security-and-maintenance-release/
URL
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/70b21279098fc973eae803693c0705a548128e48
URL
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8905

Classification

Type

SQLI

OWASP top 10
A1: Injection
CWE
CWE-89

Miscellaneous

Submitter

Slavco

Submitter website
https://medium.com/websec
Submitter twitter
mslavco
Verified

No

WPVDB ID
95e87ae5-eb01-4e27-96d3-b1f013deff1c

Timeline

Publicly Published

2017-08-24 (about 5 years ago)

Added

2017-09-20 (about 5 years ago)

Last Updated

2019-11-01 (about 3 years ago)

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