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Bug 181277 - www-apps/wordpress SQL injection
Summary: www-apps/wordpress SQL injection
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://secunia.com/advisories/25552/
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: 181513 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2007-06-08 06:40 UTC by Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED)
Modified: 2007-06-10 07:47 UTC (History)
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Description Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-08 06:40:59 UTC 
Slappter has discovered a vulnerability in WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious users to conduct SQL injection attacks.
 
 Input passed to the "wp.suggestCategories" method in xmlrpc.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.
 
 Successful exploitation allows e.g. retrieving usernames and password hashes, but requires valid user credentials and knowledge of the database table prefix.
 
 The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.2. Other versions may also be affected.
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-08 13:56:27 UTC 
This has been already package.masked due to security bugs (i.e., security unsupported).
Comment 2 Sune Kloppenborg Jeppesen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-08 14:30:10 UTC 
Oh, sorry for the noise. I only thought it was unstable.
Comment 3 Tobias Scherbaum (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-06-10 07:47:15 UTC 
*** Bug 181513 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***