CVE-2007-4894

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    CVE-2007-4894

    Published: 14 Sept 2007Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in Wordpress before 2.2.3 and Wordpress multi-user (MU) before 1.2.5a allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the post_type parameter to the pingback.extensions.getPingbacks method in the XMLRPC interface, and other unspecified parameters related to "early database escaping" and missing validation of "query string like parameters."

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/26771, http://secunia.com/advisories/26796, http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-sql-injection-advisory.html, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3132, http://wordpress.org/development/2007/09/wordpress-223/, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=285831, http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2007-214.shtml, http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4770, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36578

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High