CVE-2007-1897 (GCVE-0-2007-1897)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-04-09 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 13:13
VLAI
Summary
SQL injection vulnerability in xmlrpc (xmlrpc.php) in WordPress 2.1.2, and probably earlier, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a string parameter value in an XML RPC mt.setPostCategories method call, related to the post_id variable.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1245 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://secunia.com/advisories/25108 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4091 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.notsosecure.com/folder2/2007/04/03/wor… x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/24751 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23294 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1285 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2007-04-03 00:00
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