WordPress GBK or Big5 character sets SQL injection
| wordpress-gbk-big5-sql-injection (38959) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
WordPress is vulnerable to SQL injection. If "exact" and "sentence" are enabled, a remote attacker with knowledge of the database table prefix could send specially-crafted SQL statements to the index.php script using the "s" parameter. If DB_CHARSET in the wp-config.php script is set to the GBK or Big5 character set, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 5.1 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | High |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 4.8 |
| Exploitability: | High |
| Remediation Level: | Unavailable |
| Report Confidence: | Uncorroborated |
Consequences:
Data Manipulation
Remedy:
No remedy available as of July 17, 2010.
References:
- Full-Disclosure Mailing List, Tue, 11 Dec 2007 02:58:10 +0800: WordPress Charset SQL injection vulnerability (resend).
- SecuriTeam Mailing List, 11 Dec. 2007: WordPress Charset SQL injection vulnerability.
- WordPress Web site: WordPress.
- BID-26795: WordPress wp-db.php Character Set SQL Injection Vulnerability
- CVE-2007-6318: SQL injection vulnerability in wp-includes/query.php in WordPress 2.3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the s parameter, when DB_CHARSET is set to (1) Big5, (2) GBK, or possibly other character set encodings that support a \ in a multibyte character.
- OSVDB ID: 39552: WordPress wp-includes/query.php s Parameter SQL Injection
- SA28005: WordPress GBK/Big5 Character Set "s" SQL Injection
- SECTRACK ID: 1019071: WordPress Input Validation Flaw in Search Function Lets Remote Users Inject SQL Commands
- VUPEN/ADV-2007-4172: WordPress s Parameter Handling Remote SQL Injection Vulnerability
Platforms Affected:
- WordPress WordPress 2.2 - 2.3.1
Reported:
Dec 10, 2007
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