[CentOS] WordPress possilbe SQL injections [was: SELinux - way of the future or good idea but !!!]

Wed Dec 22 15:49:31 UTC 2010
Leonard den Ottolander <leonard at 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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