WordPress Comment Table SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	21896
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jan 05 2007 12:00AM
Updated:	Jan 05 2007 12:00AM
Credit:	Stefan Esser is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
Vulnerable:	WordPress Wordpress (B2) 0.6.2 .1 WordPress Wordpress (B2) 0.6.2 WordPress WordPress 2.0.5 WordPress WordPress 2.0.4 WordPress WordPress 2.0.3 WordPress WordPress 2.0.2 WordPress WordPress 2.0.1 WordPress WordPress 2.0 WordPress WordPress 1.5.2 WordPress WordPress 1.5.1 .3 WordPress WordPress 1.5.1 .2 WordPress WordPress 1.5.1 WordPress WordPress 1.5 WordPress WordPress 1.2.2 WordPress WordPress 1.2.1 + Gentoo Linux WordPress WordPress 1.2 + Gentoo Linux 1.4 + Gentoo Linux WordPress WordPress 0.71 WordPress WordPress 0.7
Not Vulnerable:	WordPress WordPress 2.0.6

WordPress Comment Table SQL Injection Vulnerability

WordPress is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability because it fails to sufficiently sanitize user-supplied data before using it in an SQL query.

Exploiting this issue could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit latent vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation.

WordPress 2.0.5 and prior versions are vulnerable.

WordPress Comment Table SQL Injection Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue via a web client.

WordPress Comment Table SQL Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released version 2.0.6 to address this issue; please see the reference section for details.

WordPress Comment Table SQL Injection Vulnerability

References:

• Wordpress church_admin Plugin "id" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (Sammy Forgit)
  
• Advisory 02/2007: WordPress Trackback Charset Decoding SQL Injection Vulnerabili (Stefan Esser )