CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-4899

7.5 HIGH Published 2012-01-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-01-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

wp-admin/setup-config.php in the installation component in WordPress 3.3.1 and earlier does not ensure that the specified MySQL database service is appropriate, which allows remote attackers to configure an arbitrary database via the dbhost and dbname parameters, and subsequently conduct static code injection and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via (1) an HTTP request or (2) a MySQL query. NOTE: the vendor disputes the significance of this issue; however, remote code execution makes the issue important in many realistic environments

Affected configurations

• wordpress wordpress (<= 3.3.1) • wordpress wordpress 0.7 • wordpress wordpress 0.71 • wordpress wordpress 0.72 • wordpress wordpress 0.711 • wordpress wordpress 1.0 • wordpress wordpress 1.0.1 • wordpress wordpress 1.0.2 • wordpress wordpress 1.2 • wordpress wordpress 1.2.1 • wordpress wordpress 1.2.2 • wordpress wordpress 1.5 • wordpress wordpress 1.5.1 • wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.2 • wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.3 • wordpress wordpress 1.5.2 • wordpress wordpress 2.0 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.1 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.2 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.3 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.4 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.5 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.6 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.7 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.8 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.9 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.10 • wordpress wordpress 2.0.11 • wordpress wordpress 2.1 • wordpress wordpress 2.1.1 • wordpress wordpress 2.1.2 • wordpress wordpress 2.1.3 • wordpress wordpress 2.2 • wordpress wordpress 2.2.1 • wordpress wordpress 2.2.2 • wordpress wordpress 2.2.3 • wordpress wordpress 2.3 • wordpress wordpress 2.3.1 • wordpress wordpress 2.3.2 • wordpress wordpress 2.3.3 • wordpress wordpress 2.5 • wordpress wordpress 2.5.1 • wordpress wordpress 2.6 • wordpress wordpress 2.6.1 • wordpress wordpress 2.6.2 • wordpress wordpress 2.6.3 • wordpress wordpress 2.6.5 • wordpress wordpress 2.7 • wordpress wordpress 2.7.1 • wordpress wordpress 2.8 • wordpress wordpress 2.8.1 • wordpress wordpress 2.8.2 • wordpress wordpress 2.8.3 • wordpress wordpress 2.8.4 • wordpress wordpress 2.8.5 • wordpress wordpress 2.8.6 • wordpress wordpress 2.9 • wordpress wordpress 2.9.1 • wordpress wordpress 2.9.2 • wordpress wordpress 3.0 … and 13 more

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