CVE-2010-5293

Severity

57%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

81%

wp-includes/comment.php in WordPress before 3.0.2 does not properly whitelist trackbacks and pingbacks in the blogroll, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended spam restrictions via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a URL that triggers a substring match.

wp-includes/comment.php in WordPress before 3.0.2 does not properly whitelist trackbacks and pingbacks in the blogroll, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended spam restrictions via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a URL that triggers a substring match.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2014-01-21 01:55:00

Last updated 11 years ago

2014-01-21 17:16:00

Affected Software

WordPress 2.0

2.0

WordPress 2.0.1

2.0.1

WordPress 2.0.2

2.0.2

WordPress 2.0.4

2.0.4

WordPress 2.0.5

2.0.5

WordPress 2.0.6

2.0.6

WordPress 2.0.7

2.0.7

WordPress 2.0.8

2.0.8

WordPress 2.0.9

2.0.9

WordPress 2.0.10

2.0.10

WordPress 2.0.11

2.0.11

WordPress 2.1

2.1

WordPress 2.1.1

2.1.1

WordPress 2.1.2

2.1.2

WordPress 2.1.3

2.1.3

WordPress 2.2

2.2

WordPress 2.2.1

2.2.1

WordPress 2.2.2

2.2.2

WordPress 2.2.3

2.2.3

WordPress 2.3

2.3

WordPress 2.3.1

2.3.1

WordPress 2.3.2

2.3.2

WordPress 2.3.3

2.3.3

WordPress 2.5

2.5

WordPress 2.5.1

2.5.1

WordPress 2.6

2.6

WordPress 2.6.1

2.6.1

WordPress 2.6.2

2.6.2

WordPress 2.6.3

2.6.3

WordPress 2.6.5

2.6.5

WordPress 2.7

2.7

WordPress 2.7.1

2.7.1

WordPress 2.8

2.8

WordPress 2.8.1

2.8.1

WordPress 2.8.2

2.8.2

WordPress 2.8.3

2.8.3

WordPress 2.8.4

2.8.4

WordPress 2.8.4:a

2.8.4

WordPress 2.8.5

2.8.5

WordPress 2.8.5.1

2.8.5.1

WordPress 2.8.5.2

2.8.5.2

WordPress 2.8.6

2.8.6

WordPress 2.9

2.9

WordPress 2.9.1

2.9.1

WordPress 2.9.1.1

2.9.1.1

WordPress 2.9.2

2.9.2

WordPress 3.0

3.0

WordPress

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.2

Patch, Vendor Advisory

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16637

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13887

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