CVE-2007-1897

high

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in xmlrpc (xmlrpc.php) in WordPress 2.1.2, and probably earlier, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via a string parameter value in an XML RPC mt.setPostCategories method call, related to the post_id variable.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3656

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2007-1891

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1245

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23294

http://www.notsosecure.com/folder2/2007/04/03/wordpress-212-xmlrpc-security-issues/

http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1285

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4091

http://secunia.com/advisories/25108

http://secunia.com/advisories/24751

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-04-09

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02331