CVE-2007-1622 EXPLOIT
4.3
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 5.8% (pctl 93)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 4.3 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
| EPSS | 5.78% — more likely to be exploited than 93% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2007-03-23 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| wordpress | wordpress |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | WordPress Core < 2.1.2 - 'PHP_Self' Cross-Site Scripting | 2007-03-19 |
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24567
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25108
- http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?2%2C7935#msg-8006
- http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-advisory.txt
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1285
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23027
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1005
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24567
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25108
- http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?2%2C7935#msg-8006
- http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-advisory.txt
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1285
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23027
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1005
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