CVE-2017-14723

CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · SQL injection

9.8CVSS CRITICAL

Summary

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.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork

Attack complexityLow

Privileges requiredNone

User interactionNone

Confidentiality impactHigh

Integrity impactHigh

Availability impactHigh

Exploit probability (EPSS)10%

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

Affected products we track (1)

WordPress

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/41470 ↗

Additional information

NVD record
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/41470Patch
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/41496Patch
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/70b21279098fc973eae803693c0705a548128e48Patch
https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/fc930d3daed1c3acef010d04acc2c5de93cd18ecPatch
https://medium.com/websec/wordpress-sqli-bbb2afcc8e94Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100912Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039553
https://medium.com/websec/wordpress-sqli-poc-f1827c20bf8eAdvisory