CVE-2010-4257

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-12-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-89

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in the do_trackbacks function in wp-includes/comment.php in WordPress before 3.0.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the Send Trackbacks field.

Affected products

WordPress: through 3.0.1

References

http://blog.sjinks.pro/wordpress/858-information-disclosure-via-sql-injection-attack/
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=605603
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.2
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16625
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052879.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052892.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052917.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/052932.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/42431
http://secunia.com/advisories/42753
http://secunia.com/advisories/42844
http://secunia.com/advisories/42871

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