CVE-2007-6318
SQL injection vulnerability in wp-includes/query.php in WordPress 2.3.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 9.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 4.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- WordPress Core 2.3.1 - Charset SQL Injection (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 4721webapps, phppublished 11 Dec 2007Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 9.2% · top 4.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
12
- http://www.abelcheung.org/advisory/20071210-wordpress-charset.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-0126 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 1019071 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20071210 WordPress Charset SQL injection vulnerability (re-resend) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 28005 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 26795 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20071210 WordPress Charset SQL injection vulnerability (re-resend) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2007-4172 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 28310 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-0103 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 3433 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- wordpress-gbk-big5-sql-injection(38959) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-6285 (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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