wordpress: SQL injection when certain DB charsets are used
Published Dec 12, 2007
6.8
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 9.16%
Description
SQL injection vulnerability in wp-includes/query.php in WordPress 2.3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the s parameter, when DB_CHARSET is set to (1) Big5, (2) GBK, or possibly other character set encodings that support a "\" in a multibyte character.
Affected products
No data.
- 2.0
- 2.0.1
- 2.0.2
- 2.0.3
- 2.0.4
- 2.0.5
- 2.0.6
- 2.0.7
- 2.0.10
- 2.0.10_rc1
- 2.0.10_rc2
- 2.1.1
- 2.1.2
- 2.1.3
- 2.1.3_rc1
- 2.1.3_rc2
- 2.2
- 2.2.1
- 2.2.2
- 2.2.3
- 2.2_revision5002
- 2.2_revision5003
- 2.3
- 2.3.1
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (15 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 9.16% (0.09156) | 95.18th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 9.16% (0.09156) | 94.65th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Sep 30, 2025 | 4.20% (0.04197) | 88.28th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 6.56% (0.06562) | 90.22th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 0.46% (0.00457) | 46.88th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 24, 2025 | 6.56% (0.06562) | 90.23th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 23, 2025 | 5.36% (0.05357) | 88.26th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 6.56% (0.06562) | 90.45th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 1.10% (0.01103) | 85.10th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 2, 2024 | 0.55% (0.00553) | 77.13th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jan 23, 2024 | 0.55% (0.00553) | 75.12th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.39% (0.00391) | 69.12th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 4.39% (0.04386) | 88.12th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 4.39% (0.04386) | 86.94th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 4.39% (0.04386) | 70.70th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (16)
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-December/058999.html mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISC
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28005 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28310 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3433 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
- http://www.abelcheung.org/advisory/20071210-wordpress-charset.txt x_refsource_MISCExploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/484828/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26795 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019071 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4172 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2007-6318 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=421141 Issue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38959 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-6318
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-6318
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00079.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-January/msg00098.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
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