CVE-2007-3140 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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.

Published: 2007-06-08

Score: 6.5 Medium

EPSS: 2.6% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2007-3132	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication Single

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.02571.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://osvdb.org/36321
http://secunia.com/advisories/25552
http://www.openpkg.com/security/advisories/OpenPKG-SA-2007.021.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24344
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2099
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34746
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4039

History

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Subscriptions

Wordpress Wordpress

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-06-08T16:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T14:05:28.947Z

Reserved: 2007-06-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-3140

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-06-08T16:30:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-3140

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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