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CVE-2017-14723

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-09-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-89

Description

Before version 4.8.2, WordPress mishandled % characters and additional placeholder values in $wpdb->prepare, and thus did not properly address the possibility of plugins and themes enabling SQL injection attacks.

Affected products

• WordPress: through 4.8.1

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100912
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039553
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/41470
• https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/41496
• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/70b21279098fc973eae803693c0705a548128e48
• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/fc930d3daed1c3acef010d04acc2c5de93cd18ec
• https://medium.com/websec/wordpress-sqli-bbb2afcc8e94
• https://medium.com/websec/wordpress-sqli-poc-f1827c20bf8e
• https://wordpress.org/news/2017/09/wordpress-4-8-2-security-and-maintenance-release/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3997
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100912
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039553

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