Wordpress Admin-Ajax.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability

TITLE: Wordpress Admin-Ajax.PHP SQL Injection Vulnerability
CLASS: Input Validation Error
CVE:
REMOTE: Yes
LOCAL: No
PUBLISHED: May 21 2007 12:00AM
UPDATE: May 22 2007 09:57PM
CREDIT: waraxe is credited with the discovery of this vulnerability.
VULNERABLE:

WordPress WordPress 2.1.3
NOT VULNERABLE:

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Discussion

WordPress is prone to an SQL-injection vulnerability because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input before using it in an SQL query.

A successful exploit could allow an attacker to compromise the application, access or modify data, or exploit vulnerabilities in the underlying database implementation.

This issue affects WordPress 2.1.3; other versions may also be vulnerable.

Exploit

Attackers can use a browser to exploit this issue.

The following exploit is available:

Solution

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or if you are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: mailto:vuldb@securityfocus.com.

References

References:

PhpLog

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