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WordPress "admin-ajax.php" SQL Injection
Secunia Advisory: SA25345
Release Date: 2007-05-21
Last Update: 2007-06-01
Popularity: 15,358 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:WordPress 2.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
Janek Vind has discovered a vulnerability in WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct SQL injection attacks.

Input passed to the "cookie" parameter in wp-admin/admin-ajax.php is not properly sanitised before being used in SQL queries. This can be exploited to manipulate SQL queries by injecting arbitrary SQL code.

Successful exploitation allows e.g. retrieving administrator password hashes, but requires knowledge of the database table prefix.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 2.1.3. Prior versions may also be affected.

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