PT-2017-13652 · WordPress · Wordpress

Published 2017-09-23 · Updated 2017-11-10 · CVE-2017-14723

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 4.8.2

Description The issue arises from the mishandling of % characters and additional placeholder values in $wpdb->prepare, which could enable SQL injection attacks if plugins or themes are not properly secured.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.8.2, update to version 4.8.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

SQL injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-89

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-14723

DLA-1151-1

DSA-3997-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 33

• 🔥 https://medium.com/websec/wordpress-sqli-bbb2afcc8e94 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://medium.com/websec/wordpress-sqli-poc-f1827c20bf8e · Exploit
• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/70b21279098fc973eae803693c0705a548128e48 · Patch
• https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/fc930d3daed1c3acef010d04acc2c5de93cd18ec · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-14723 · Vendor Advisory
• https://debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3997 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14726 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3997-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-14723 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14723 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-14723 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14723 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14719 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14724 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14721 · Security Note