CVE-2007-0107

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 11.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-01-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

WordPress before 2.0.6, when mbstring is enabled for PHP, decodes alternate character sets after escaping the SQL query, which allows remote attackers to bypass SQL injection protection schemes and execute arbitrary SQL commands via multibyte charsets, as demonstrated using UTF-7.

Affected products

WordPress: through 2.0.5

References

http://osvdb.org/31579
http://secunia.com/advisories/23595
http://secunia.com/advisories/23741
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-10.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2112
http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/wordpress-206/
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_022007.141.html
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.005.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456049/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21907
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0061
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31297

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