Detections
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WordPress < 2.1.4 'admin-ajax.php' SQLi

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 3995

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a SQL injection attack.

Description

The version of WordPress installed on the remote host is vulnerable to a SQL injection attack.

An attacker exploiting this flaw would only need to be able to send data to the 'wp-admin/admin-ajax.php' script. Successful exploitation would result in the attacker executing SQL commands on the remote database server

Solution

Upgrade to WordPress 2.1.4, or later.

See Also

http://wordpress.org

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 3995

Family: CGI

Published: 5/21/2007

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 25291

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:wordpress:wordpress

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-2821

BID: 24076