CVE-2017-16510
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
WordPress before 4.8.3 is affected by an issue where $wpdb->prepare() can create unexpected and unsafe queries leading to potential SQL injection (SQLi) in plugins and themes, as demonstrated by a "double prepare" approach, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-14723.
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 withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 4.8.3+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 4.8.3+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 4.8.3+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 4.8.3+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 4.8.3+dfsg-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress | wordpress | {"endIncluding":"4.8.2"} | |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101638
- https://blog.ircmaxell.com/2017/10/disclosure-wordpress-wpdb-sql-injection-technical.html
- https://codex.wordpress.org/Version_4.8.3
- https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/a2693fd8602e3263b5925b9d799ddd577202167d
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00003.html
- https://wordpress.org/news/2017/10/wordpress-4-8-3-security-release/
- https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/8941
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4090
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16510
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.