FKIE_CVE-2007-1732

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2007-03-28 20:19 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:38
Severity
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in an mt import in wp-admin/admin.php in WordPress 2.1.2 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the demo parameter. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information. NOTE: another researcher disputes this issue, stating that this is legitimate functionality for administrators. However, it has been patched by at least one vendor
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_CapabilitiesProduct
cve@mitre.orghttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=117319839710382&w=2Mailing List
cve@mitre.orghttp://osvdb.org/33884Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/24430Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/24566Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-23.xmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_CapabilitiesProduct
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=117319839710382&w=2Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/33884Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/24430Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/24566Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-23.xmlThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wordpress wordpress 2.1.2
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