CVE-2007-3238

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    CVE-2007-3238

    Published: 15 Jun 2007Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/25541/, http://secunia.com/advisories/29014, http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1502, http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/news/news-100607-1/, http://mybeni.rootzilla.de/mybeNi/2007/wordpress_zeroday_vulnerability_roundhouse_kick_and_why_i_nearly_wrote_the_first_blog_worm/, http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities, http://osvdb.org/37293, http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2807, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470837/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25161, http://www.xssnews.com/, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34785

    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
    CVE-2007-3238 | CVE-DB