PT-2007-4517 · WordPress · Wordpress

Published 2007-06-15 · Updated 2018-10-16 · CVE-2007-3238

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: WordPress version 2.2

Description: A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists in the default theme's functions.php file, allowing remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH INFO (REQUEST URI) to "wp-admin/themes.php". This might not cross privilege boundaries in some configurations, since the Administrator role has the unfiltered html capability.

Recommendations: For WordPress version 2.2, update to a newer version to mitigate the risk, as the exact fix version is not specified. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the wp-admin/themes.php endpoint for remote authenticated administrators until a patch is available.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2007-3238

DSA-1502-1

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 17

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-3238 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2007-3238 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2007-3238 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2007-3238 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1502 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29014 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3238 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25541 · Note
• http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/news/news-100607-1 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34785 · Note
• http://xssnews.com · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2807 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/470837/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/25161 · Note
• http://mybeni.rootzilla.de/mybeNi/2007/wordpress_zeroday_vulnerability_roundhouse_kick_and_why_i_nearly_wrote_the_first_blog_worm · Note