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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in WordPress 1.7.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Administration Panel. Such manipulation leads to sql injection. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2008-0616. The attack may be performed from remote. In addition, an exploit is available. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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A vulnerability was found in WordPress 1.7.0 (Content Management System). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Administration Panel. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

SQL injection vulnerability in the administration panel in the DMSGuestbook 1.7.0 plugin for WordPress allows remote authenticated administrators to execute arbitrary SQL commands via unspecified vectors. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue crosses privilege boundaries.

The weakness was presented 02/06/2008 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-0616 since 02/05/2008. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. A simple authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1505.

A public exploit has been developed by NBBN and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 4 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (40196), Exploit-DB (5035) and SecurityFocus (BID 27575†). See VDB-40869 and VDB-40867 for similar entries. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Content Management System

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• WordPress

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• 1.7.0

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• open-source

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• Product: https://wordpress.com/

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