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CVE-2010-5293

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-01-21 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

wp-includes/comment.php in WordPress before 3.0.2 does not properly whitelist trackbacks and pingbacks in the blogroll, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended spam restrictions via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a URL that triggers a substring match.

Affected products

• WordPress: through 3.0.1; 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6 (+41)

References

• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.2
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16637
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13887
• http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.2
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16637
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13887

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