CVE-2010-5293: WordPress

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

wp-includes/comment.php in WordPress before 3.0.2 does not properly whitelist trackbacks and pingbacks in the blogroll, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended spam restrictions via a crafted URL, as demonstrated by a URL that triggers a substring match.

Affected products

• WordPress WordPress: up to and including 3.0.1; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only; …

Published 2014-01-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.