bugtraq - Re: WordPress Search Function SQL-Injection

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Date: 27 Feb 2007 22:23:32 -0000
From: kelson@...ox.com
To: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com
Subject: Re: WordPress Search Function SQL-Injection

This looks like the bug described here: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3722
"DB error when sanitized search string results in empty query" (Filed January 31)

According to that page:
> I guess it's also worth mentioning that commas
> _are_ being sanitized. The reason for the error is
> that once the commas are gone WordPress attempts 
> to wrap the search query with "AND ( $search )"
> 
> Since $search is null MySQL throws up an error.

The same error results from searching for just a space.  In either case, adding other characters to the field results in the expected query.  It doesn't look like injection would be possible.