CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-0937

5.0 MEDIUM 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])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

wp-admin/setup-config.php in the installation component in WordPress 3.3.1 and earlier does not limit the number of MySQL queries sent to external MySQL database servers, which allows remote attackers to use WordPress as a proxy for brute-force attacks or denial of service attacks via the dbhost parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4898. NOTE: the vendor disputes the significance of this issue because an incomplete WordPress installation might be present on the network for only a short time

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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