CVE-2012-0937

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

** DISPUTED ** wp-admin/setup-config.php in the installation component in WordPress 3.3.1 and earlier does not limit the number of MySQL queries sent to external MySQL database servers, which allows remote attackers to use WordPress as a proxy for brute-force attacks or denial of service attacks via the dbhost parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4898. NOTE: the vendor disputes the significance of this issue because an incomplete WordPress installation might be present on the network for only a short time.

** DISPUTED ** wp-admin/setup-config.php in the installation component in WordPress 3.3.1 and earlier does not limit the number of MySQL queries sent to external MySQL database servers, which allows remote attackers to use WordPress as a proxy for brute-force attacks or denial of service attacks via the dbhost parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4898. NOTE: the vendor disputes the significance of this issue because an incomplete WordPress installation might be present on the network for only a short time.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 13 years ago

2012-01-30 17:55:00

Last updated 13 years ago

2012-01-31 05:00:00

Affected Software

WordPress 0.71

0.71

WordPress 0.711

0.711

WordPress 1.0

1.0

WordPress 1.0.1

1.0.1

WordPress 1.0.2

1.0.2

WordPress 1.2

1.2

WordPress 1.2.1

1.2.1

WordPress 1.2.2

1.2.2

WordPress 1.5

1.5

WordPress 1.5.1

1.5.1

WordPress 1.5.1.2

1.5.1.2

WordPress 1.5.1.3

1.5.1.3

WordPress 1.5.2

1.5.2

WordPress 2.0

2.0

WordPress 2.0.1

2.0.1

WordPress 2.0.2

2.0.2

WordPress 2.0.3

2.0.3

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 2.8.5

2.8.5

WordPress 2.8.6

2.8.6

WordPress 2.9

2.9

WordPress 2.9.1

2.9.1

WordPress 2.9.2

2.9.2

WordPress 3.0

3.0

WordPress 3.0.1

3.0.1

WordPress 3.0.2

3.0.2

WordPress 3.0.3

3.0.3

WordPress 3.0.4

3.0.4

WordPress 3.0.5

3.0.5

WordPress 3.0.6

3.0.6

WordPress 3.1

3.1

WordPress 3.1.1

3.1.1

WordPress 3.1.2

3.1.2

WordPress 3.1.3

3.1.3

WordPress 3.1.4

3.1.4

WordPress 3.2.1

3.2.1

WordPress 3.3

3.3

WordPress

References

20120124 TWSL2012-002: Multiple Vulnerabilities in WordPress

18417

https://www.trustwave.com/spiderlabs/advisories/TWSL2012-002.txt

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