VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-14723

critical
Published 2017-09-23 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Before version 4.8.2, WordPress mishandled % characters and additional placeholder values in $wpdb->prepare, and thus did not properly address the possibility of plugins and themes enabling SQL injection attacks.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 4.8.2+dfsg-1
sid Fixed 4.8.2+dfsg-1
forky Fixed 4.8.2+dfsg-1
bullseye Fixed 4.8.2+dfsg-1
bookworm Fixed 4.8.2+dfsg-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wordpress wordpresswordpress{"endIncluding":"4.8.1"}

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.