CVE-2007-4894

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-09-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-89

Description

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in Wordpress before 2.2.3 and Wordpress multi-user (MU) before 1.2.5a allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the post_type parameter to the pingback.extensions.getPingbacks method in the XMLRPC interface, and other unspecified parameters related to "early database escaping" and missing validation of "query string like parameters."

Affected products

WordPress: 0.6.2, 0.6.2.1, 0.7, 0.71, 1.2, 1.2.1 (+25)

References

http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2007-214.shtml
http://secunia.com/advisories/26771
http://secunia.com/advisories/26796
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4770
http://wordpress.org/development/2007/09/wordpress-223/
http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-sql-injection-advisory.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3132
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=285831
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36578
http://fedoranews.org/updates/FEDORA-2007-214.shtml
http://secunia.com/advisories/26771
http://secunia.com/advisories/26796

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