CVE-2010-4257 (GCVE-0-2010-4257)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-12-07 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:34
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/42844 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://wordpress.org/news/2010/11/wordpress-3-0-2/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2138 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/42753 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://blog.sjinks.pro/wordpress/858-information-… x_refsource_MISC
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/42871 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3337 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=605603 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16625 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.xakep.ru/magazine/xa/124/052/1.asp x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45131 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=659265 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://secunia.com/advisories/42431 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.2 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0042 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0057 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Date Public
2010-11-30 00:00
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