WordPress Charset Decoding SQL Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID:	21907
Class:	Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote:	Yes
Local:	No
Published:	Jan 06 2007 12:00AM
Updated:	Jan 16 2007 10:00PM
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 OpenPKG OpenPKG Stable OpenPKG OpenPKG E1.0-Solid OpenPKG OpenPKG Current OpenPKG OpenPKG 2-Stable-20061018 Gentoo Linux
Not Vulnerable:	WordPress WordPress 2.0.6

WordPress Charset Decoding 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 Charset Decoding SQL Injection Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit this issue via a web client.

The following proof-of-concept exploit is available:

• /data/vulnerabilities/exploits/wordpress_utf7_sqlinj_poc.txt