Home/CVE/wp-admin/setup-config.php in the installation component in WordPress 3.3.1 and earlier does not ensure that the specifie
CVE

CVE-2011-4899

wp-admin/setup-config.php in the installation component in WordPress 3.3.1 and earlier does not ensure that the specifie

wp-admin/setup-config.php in the installation component in WordPress 3.3.1 and earlier does not ensure that the specified MySQL database service is appropriate, which allows remote attackers to configure an arbitrary database via the dbhost and dbname parameters, and subsequently conduct static code injection and cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via (1) an HTTP request or (2) a MySQL query. NOTE: the vendor disputes the significance of this issue.

however, remote code execution makes the issue important in many realistic environments.

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.05535
Act now
  • EPSS percentile: top 10% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
  • Public exploit or PoC is available
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0

Affected Products & Versions

2
wordpress<= 3.3.1
wordpressall versions

Public Exploits & PoCs

4

Scoring & Timeline

7.5
HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
View on NVD
This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published to NVD30 Jan 2012 · 05:55 PM
SSVC triage · cisa-vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
SSVC asks the questions that actually drive patch urgency: is it being exploited, can attacks be automated, and how total is the impact.
Intelligence Graph · click any node to traverse
CVETechnique ActorTool Family
drag to reposition · click any node to traverse · button top-right enlarges
External lookups - second-class, for what we don’t hold ourselves
Vulnerabilities
CISA KEV catalog
CWE weaknesses
CAPEC attack patterns
Package vulnerabilities
Threat intelligence
Threat actors
Tools & malware
ATT&CK techniques
IOCs
Detection & defense
Sigma rules
YARA rules
Atomic Red Team tests
D3FEND countermeasures
Compliance
NIST 800-53
ISO 27001:2022
SOC 2 TSC
PCI-DSS v4.0
CIS Controls v8.1
About
All capabilities
Live statistics
Data sources
Privacy policy
Terms of service
threatengine.sh  ·  Open-source threat intelligence platform  ·  100+ authoritative sources  ·  Every fact traces to its origin