CVEvulnerability
CVE-2007-3238
6.0 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2007-06-15
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
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 (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.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress 2.2
References
- http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/news/news-100607-1/ blogsecurity.net
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities codex.wordpress.org
- http://mybeni.rootzilla.de/mybeNi/2007/wordpress_zeroday_vulnerability_roundhouse_kick_and_why_i_nearly_wrote_the_first_blog_worm/ mybeni.rootzilla.de
- http://osvdb.org/37293 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25541/ secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29014 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2807 securityreason.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1502 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470837/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25161 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.xssnews.com/ www.xssnews.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34785 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/news/news-100607-1/ blogsecurity.net
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities codex.wordpress.org
- http://mybeni.rootzilla.de/mybeNi/2007/wordpress_zeroday_vulnerability_roundhouse_kick_and_why_i_nearly_wrote_the_first_blog_worm/ mybeni.rootzilla.de
- http://osvdb.org/37293 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25541/ secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29014 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2807 securityreason.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1502 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470837/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25161 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.xssnews.com/ www.xssnews.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34785 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com