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CVE-2007-3238

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in functions.php in the default theme in WordPress 2.2 allows remote authentica

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.

MEDIUM · CVSS 6 EPSS 0.01473
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MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published to NVD15 Jun 2007 · 01:30 AM
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/news/news-100607-1/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
http://mybeni.rootzilla.de/mybeNi/2007/wordpress_zeroday_vulnerability_roundhouse_kick_and_why_i_nearly_wrote_the_first_blog_worm/
http://osvdb.org/37293
http://secunia.com/advisories/25541/
http://secunia.com/advisories/29014
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