CVE-2007-1897

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-04-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-89

Description

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.

Affected products

WordPress: through 2.1.2; 2.1, 2.1.1

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/24751
http://secunia.com/advisories/25108
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4091
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1285
http://www.notsosecure.com/folder2/2007/04/03/wordpress-212-xmlrpc-security-issues/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23294
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1245
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3656
http://secunia.com/advisories/24751
http://secunia.com/advisories/25108
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4091
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1285

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