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WordPress possilbe SQL injections [was: SELinux - way of thefuture or good idea but !!!] Dec 21 2010 12:44PM
Leonard den Ottolander (leonard den ottolander nl) (1 replies)
Re: [CentOS] WordPress possilbe SQL injections [was: SELinux - wayof the future or good idea but !!!] Dec 22 2010 03:49PM
Leonard den Ottolander (leonard den ottolander nl)
On Tue, 2010-12-21 at 13:44 +0100, Leonard den Ottolander wrote:
> The patch shown in
> http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16625
>
> prompted me to try a
>
> $ grep -r "\=\ \%s\"" *
>
> in the web root of a WordPress installation. The matches are a bunch of
> possible SQL injections. Haven't checked the actual code paths,

This turned out to a wild goose chase: For all matches the substituted
strings are being quoted via wpdb->prepare().

Regard,
Leonard.

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