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CVE-2017-14723
Before version 4.8.2, WordPress mishandled % characters and additional placeholder values in $wpdb->prepare, and thus did not properly…
Critical9.8EPSS 6.5%
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- mitre
Description
Before version 4.8.2, WordPress mishandled % characters and additional placeholder values in $wpdb->prepare, and thus did not properly address the possibility of plugins and themes enabling SQL injection attacks.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.5% · top 6.2% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- DSA-3997 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- https://medium.com/websec/wordpress-sqli-poc-f1827c20bf8e (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 100912 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1039553 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/fc930d3daed1c3acef010d04acc2c5de93cd18ec (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/41470 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/41496 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://wordpress.org/news/2017/09/wordpress-4-8-2-security-and-maintenance-release/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://medium.com/websec/wordpress-sqli-bbb2afcc8e94 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/70b21279098fc973eae803693c0705a548128e48 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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