{"id":"CVE-2010-5293","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2010-5293","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:05:40.773Z","title":"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…","description":"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.","published":"2014-01-21T01:55:03.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:26:30.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5.8,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-264"],"affected":["wordpress/wordpress"],"epss":{"score":0.0253,"percentile":0.84799,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.53%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.2","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16637","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13887","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.2","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16637","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/13887","tags":["Exploit","Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-5293","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}