CVE-2007-0107

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

Successful exploitation requires that the "mbstring" extension be enabled. This vulnerability is addressed in the following product release: WordPress, WordPress, 2.0.6

WordPress before 2.0.6, when mbstring is enabled for PHP, decodes alternate character sets after escaping the SQL query, which allows remote attackers to bypass SQL injection protection schemes and execute arbitrary SQL commands via multibyte charsets, as demonstrated using UTF-7.

Successful exploitation requires that the "mbstring" extension be enabled. This vulnerability is addressed in the following product release: WordPress, WordPress, 2.0.6

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2007-01-09 00:28:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-16 16:31:00

Affected Software

WordPress

References

31579

23595

Patch, Vendor Advisory

23741

GLSA-200701-10

2112

http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/wordpress-206/

Patch

http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_022007.141.html

Patch, Vendor Advisory

OpenPKG-SA-2007.005

Patch, Vendor Advisory

20070105 Advisory 02/2007: WordPress Trackback Charset Decoding SQL Injection Vulnerability

21907

Exploit, Patch

ADV-2007-0061

wordpress-mbstring-security-bypass(31297)

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