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GHSA-4F8M-X9C7-GVCQ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 00:25 – Updated: 2025-04-20 03:45

Details

Before version 4.8.2, WordPress mishandled % characters and additional placeholder values in $wpdb->prepare, and thus did not properly address the possibility of plugins and themes enabling SQL injection attacks.

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                  
                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CVE-2017-14723 (GCVE-0-2017-14723)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-23 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 19:34

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

10 references

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https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3997	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://medium.com/websec/wordpress-sqli-poc-f182…	x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100912	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039553	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/fc9…	x_refsource_MISC
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/41470	x_refsource_MISC
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/41496	x_refsource_MISC
https://wordpress.org/news/2017/09/wordpress-4-8-…	x_refsource_MISC
https://medium.com/websec/wordpress-sqli-bbb2afcc8e94	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/70b…	x_refsource_MISC

Date Public

2017-09-23 00:00

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GHSA-4F8M-X9C7-GVCQ

CVE-2017-14723 (GCVE-0-2017-14723)

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