CVE-2007-0107: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 11.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

WordPress before 2.0.6, when mbstring is enabled for PHP, decodes alternate character sets after escaping the SQL query, which allows remote attackers to bypass SQL injection protection schemes and execute arbitrary SQL commands via multibyte charsets, as demonstrated using UTF-7.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 2.0.5

Published 2007-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.