CVE-2007-3238
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
02 Description
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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.00% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 80.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2007-06-15 01:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 14:05Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2007-06-14
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 50d48090434f2a17aea79da63443e3af745efaab5221adc63930ea0a16555aa7
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.debian.orgDSA-1502http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1502
- codex.wordpress.orghttp://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
- blogsecurity.nethttp://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/news/news-100607-1/
- www.securityfocus.com25161http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25161
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comwordpress-themes-xss(34785)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34785
- securityreason.com2807http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2807
- www.xssnews.comhttp://www.xssnews.com/
- osvdb.org37293http://osvdb.org/37293
- secunia.com25541http://secunia.com/advisories/25541/
- mybeni.rootzilla.dehttp://mybeni.rootzilla.de/mybeNi/2007/wordpress_zeroday_vulnerability_roundhouse_kick_and_why_i_nearly_wrote_the_first_blog_worm/
- www.securityfocus.com20070608 Wordpress default theme XSS (admin) and other problemshttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470837/100/0/threaded
- secunia.com29014http://secunia.com/advisories/29014
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- wordpress Fixed in 2.2.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- wordpress Fixed in 2.2.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- wordpress Fixed in 2.2.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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