CVE-2012-0937 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2012-0937

wp-admin/setup-config.php in the installation component in WordPress 3.3.1 and earlier...

Vulnerability Description

wp-admin/setup-config.php in the installation component in WordPress 3.3.1 and earlier does not limit the number of MySQL queries sent to external MySQL database servers, which allows remote attackers to use WordPress as a proxy for brute-force attacks or denial of service attacks via the dbhost parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-4898. NOTE: the vendor disputes the significance of this issue because an incomplete WordPress installation might be present on the network for only a short time

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

wordpress
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 0.7, 0.71, 0.72, 0.711, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.1.2, 1.5.1.3, 1.5.2, 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.0.8, 2.0.9, 2.0.10, 2.0.11, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.5, 2.7, 2.7.1, 2.8, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.3, 2.8.4, 2.8.5, 2.8.6, 2.9, 2.9.1, 2.9.2, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6, 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 3.2.1, 3.3

Timeline

Official Publish: January 30th, 2012
Last Modified: September 16th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

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Weaknesses (CWE)

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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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