CVE-2010-4257 SQL injection in n/a

What is CVE-2010-4257?

CVE-2010-4257 is a medium-severity SQL injection vulnerability in Wordpress Wordpress, published on 7 Dec 2010. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

SQL injection vulnerability in the do_trackbacks function in wp-includes/comment.php in WordPress before 3.0.2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the Send Trackbacks field.

Weakness: CWE-89

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4257?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wordpress Wordpress.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4257?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Use parameterised queries everywhere and never build SQL by joining strings. Upgrade affected software first; a web application firewall only buys time. More about SQL injection.

Is CVE-2010-4257 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4257 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2026-60137 WordPress Core SQL Injection Exploited Medium 5.9
• CVE-2012-2399 Cross-site scripting in n/a Critical 10.0
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4257, DSA-2138-1, GHSA-ggq7-6rpp-2v58.