CVE-2009-4748

high
Published 2010-03-26 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.5

Description

SQL injection vulnerability in mycategoryorder.php in the My Category Order plugin 2.8 and earlier for WordPress allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the parentID parameter in an act_OrderCategories action to wp-admin/post-new.php.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-9150 webapps php verified
Manh Luat ยท 2009-07-15

WordPress Plugin My Category Order 2.8 - SQL Injection

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
andrew_charltonmy_category_order{"endIncluding":"2.8"}
andrew_charltonmy_category_order2.6.1
andrew_charltonmy_category_order2.6.1a
andrew_charltonmy_category_order2.7
andrew_charltonmy_category_order2.7.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress

References

CWEs

CWE-89

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.