Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in WordPress, the most severe of which could allow for SQL injection. WordPress is an open source content management system (CMS) which assist in the creation and hosting of web applications. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow for SQL injection. Depending on the privileges associated with the service, an attacker could then read, extract, or write to the backend database. Services which are configured to have fewer rights on the system and the backend database could be less impacted than those who operate with administrative rights.

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