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CVE-2007-16221 exploit

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/vars.php in WordPress before 2.0.10 RC2, and before 2.1.3 RC2 in the 2.1 series, allow…

Published 19 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
4.3
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
6.0%
percentile 93%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/vars.php in WordPress before 2.0.10 RC2, and before 2.1.3 RC2 in the 2.1 series, allows remote authenticated users with theme privileges to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO in the administration interface, related to loose regular expression processing of PHP_SELF.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

5.96% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-29754 WordPress Core < 2.1.2 - 'PHP_Self' Cross-Site Scripting · webapps · 2007-03-19

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.04.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Technology feeds
WordPress (RSS, critical only)

References

  • vupen.com /english/advisories/2007/1005 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, x_transferred
  • buayacorp.com /files/wordpress/wordpress-advisory.txt · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/23027 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
  • secunia.com /advisories/25108 · third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA, x_transferred
  • secunia.com /advisories/24567 · third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA, x_transferred
  • debian.org /security/2007/dsa-1285 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_DEBIAN, x_transferred
  • sla.ckers.org /forum/read.php?2%2C7935#msg-8006 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred

Sources

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