VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-2292

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Published 2015-03-17 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.5

Description

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in admin/class-bulk-editor-list-table.php in the WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin before 1.5.7, 1.6.x before 1.6.4, and 1.7.x before 1.7.4 for WordPress allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the (1) order_by or (2) order parameter in the wpseo_bulk-editor page to wp-admin/admin.php. NOTE: this can be leveraged using CSRF to allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands.

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.

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.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-36413 webapps php verified
Ryan Dewhurst · 2015-03-16

WordPress Plugin SEO by Yoast 1.7.3.3 - Blind SQL Injection

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
yoastwordpress_seo{"endIncluding":"1.5.6"}
yoastwordpress_seo1.6.0
yoastwordpress_seo1.6.1
yoastwordpress_seo1.6.2
yoastwordpress_seo1.6.3
yoastwordpress_seo1.7.1
yoastwordpress_seo1.7.2
yoastwordpress_seo1.7.3
yoastwordpress_seo1.7.3.1
yoastwordpress_seo1.7.3.2
yoastwordpress_seo1.7.3.3

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.