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WP-RecentComments <= 2.0.7 — SQL Injection

CVE-2012-1067Published · Updated

Action summary

Affected: ≤2.0.7Update to 2.1 or newer

All remediation steps
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Severity
Critical9.8
CVSS
9.8
CVSS 3.1 · CNA (Wordfence)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
What does this vector mean?
AV:N Attack vector
Network
AC:L Attack complexity
Low
PR:N Privileges required
None
UI:N User interaction
None
S:U Scope
Unchanged
C:H Confidentiality
High
I:H Integrity
High
A:H Availability
High
Weakness
CWE-89 SQL Injection
Required access
No account needed
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
No score
CISA KEV
Not listed
On this page8

Am I affected?

WP-RecentComments wp-recentcomments

  1. Affected≤ 2.0.7
  2. Patched in2.1

Update to 2.1 or newer.

You are affected if you run ≤ 2.0.7. Version 2.1 and later are not affected by this issue.

  • Check your version: in wp-admin go to Plugins → Installed Plugins and read the version under WP-RecentComments.
  • No admin access? Run a passive check of your site. It reads public files only.
  • No account is needed to exploit this. Treat any exposed site on an affected version as at risk.

What to do

  1. Update to version 2.1, or a newer patched version
  2. Rotate administrator passwords and application secrets if the site ran a vulnerable version while publicly reachable.
  3. Watch WP-RecentComments to get an email when the next vulnerability is published.

Advisory

Source description from Wordfence Intelligence.

SQL injection vulnerability in the WP-RecentComments plugin 2.0.7 for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the id parameter in an rc-content action to index.php. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information.

Exploits & references

Proof-of-concept & detection

No public proof-of-concept or detection template is known for this vulnerability.

Advisories & patches

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SeverityVulnerabilityCVEPublished
Medium5.3Unauthenticated Information Exposure
≤2.2.7No patch available
CVE-2023-23886
Medium6.1Cross-Site Scripting
<2.0.7Update to 2.0.7
CVE-2012-1068

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Timeline

  1. CVE published

    Severity critical, CVSS 9.8

  2. Record last updated

Sources & licenses

Wordfence record
Vulnerability data
Wordfence Intelligence. [object Object] Licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.
CVE® identifiers
[object Object]. Used under the CVE Program. CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation.
CVSS / CWE
National Vulnerability Database (NVD), shown unmodified. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
VulnCrest content
Summary, remediation guidance and page layout © VulnCrest. Not sourced from NVD.

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