CVE-2007-3238 (GCVE-0-2007-3238)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-06-15 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 14:05
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities x_refsource_MISC
http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/news/news-100607-1/ x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25161 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2807 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.xssnews.com/ x_refsource_MISC
http://osvdb.org/37293 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://secunia.com/advisories/25541/ third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://mybeni.rootzilla.de/mybeNi/2007/wordpress_… x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470837/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://secunia.com/advisories/29014 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2007-06-08 00:00
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