CVE-2007-6318

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-12-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-89

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in wp-includes/query.php in WordPress 2.3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the s parameter, when DB_CHARSET is set to (1) Big5, (2) GBK, or possibly other character set encodings that support a "\" in a multibyte character.

Affected products

WordPress: 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+18)

References

http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-December/058999.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28005
http://secunia.com/advisories/28310
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3433
http://www.abelcheung.org/advisory/20071210-wordpress-charset.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484828/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26795
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019071
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4172
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38959
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00079.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00098.html

Get alerted when CVE-2007-6318 or the next vulnerability affects your stack