CVE-2017-14723
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 6.5%
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.
- CVSS v3.0 NVD
- 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 7.5 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - EPSS
- 6.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 94th percentile
- Published
- 2017-09-23
- Updated
- 2024-08-05
Proof-of-concept exploits (2)
- https://medium.com/websec/wordpress-sqli-poc-f1827c20bf8e
- Byebyesky/IT-Security-Projekt1★ · 2019-06-03
Security advisories
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/41470
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/41496
- https://wordpress.org/news/2017/09/wordpress-4-8-2-security-and-maintenance-release
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100912
- WordPress/WordPress/commit/70b21279098fc973eae803693c0705a548128e48
- https://medium.com/websec/wordpress-sqli-bbb2afcc8e94