CVE-2007-3238

Severity

60%

Complexity

68%

Confidentiality

106%

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in functions.php in the default theme in WordPress 2.2 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO (REQUEST_URI) to wp-admin/themes.php, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-1622. NOTE: this might not cross privilege boundaries in some configurations, since the Administrator role has the unfiltered_html capability.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in functions.php in the default theme in WordPress 2.2 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO (REQUEST_URI) to wp-admin/themes.php, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-1622. NOTE: this might not cross privilege boundaries in some configurations, since the Administrator role has the unfiltered_html capability.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 17 years ago

2007-06-15 01:30:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-16 16:47:00

Affected Software

WordPress 2.2

2.2

References

http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/news/news-100607-1/

http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities

http://mybeni.rootzilla.de/mybeNi/2007/wordpress_zeroday_vulnerability_roundhouse_kick_and_why_i_nearly_wrote_the_first_blog_worm/

37293

25541

29014

2807

DSA-1502

20070608 Wordpress default theme XSS (admin) and other problems

25161

http://www.xssnews.com/

wordpress-themes-xss(34785)

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