VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-5611

critical
Published 2017-01-30 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/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

SQL injection vulnerability in wp-includes/class-wp-query.php in WP_Query in WordPress before 4.7.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands by leveraging the presence of an affected plugin or theme that mishandles a crafted post type name.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

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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OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.7.2+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.7.2+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.7.2+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed4.7.2+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.7.2+dfsg-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wordpress wordpresswordpress{"endIncluding":"4.7.1"}
oracle oracledata_integrator11.1.1.9.0
oracle oracledata_integrator12.2.1.3.0
oracle oracledata_integrator12.2.1.4.0

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.