CVE-2007-1622

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    CVE-2007-1622

    Published: 23 Mar 2007Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/24567, http://secunia.com/advisories/25108, http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-advisory.txt, http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1285, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1005, http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-advisory.txt, http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-advisory.txt, http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?2%2C7935#msg-8006, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23027

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High