CVE-2010-4257

Wordpress vulnerability

CVSS

6.0

EPSS

3.1%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

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.

Affected vendor

Wordpress

Affected product

Wordpress

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-89 — SQL Injection

Published

2010-12-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium 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 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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