CVE-2007-3238 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-3238
NOTE: The text on this page is written by CVE MITRE and reflects neither the opinions of Secunia or the results of our research. All data on this page is written and maintained by CVE MITRE.

Original Page at CVE MITRE: CVE-2007-3238

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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/34785 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2807 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29014 MISC http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities http://www.xssnews.com/ http://mybeni.rootzilla.de/mybeNi/2007/wordpress_zeroday_vulnerability_roundhouse_kick_and_why_i_nearly_wrote_the_first_blog_worm/ http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/news/news-100607-1/ DEBIAN http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1502 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/470837/100/0/threaded BID 25161

Return to the previous page.