CVE-2015-2292

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2015-03-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-89

Description

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php in the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin before 1.5.7, 1.6.x before 1.6.4, and 1.7.x before 1.7.4 for WordPress allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) order_by or (2) order parameter in the wpseo_bulk-editor page to wp-admin/admin.php. NOTE: this can be leveraged using CSRF to allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands.

Affected products

Yoast Wordpress Seo: through 1.5.6; 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 1.6.3, 1.7.1, 1.7.2 (+4)

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130811/WordPress-SEO-By-Yoast-1.7.3.3-SQL-Injection.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/73
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031920
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/changelog/
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7841
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36413/
https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-security-release/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/130811/WordPress-SEO-By-Yoast-1.7.3.3-SQL-Injection.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Mar/73
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031920
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/changelog/
https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/7841

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