CVE-2007-3140

Wordpress vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

7.3%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

SQL injection vulnerability in xmlrpc.php in WordPress 2.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a parameter value in an XML RPC wp.suggestCategories methodCall, a different vector than CVE-2007-1897.

Affected vendor

Wordpress

Affected product

Wordpress

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2007-06-08

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 7.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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