CVE-2007-0106

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-01-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CSRF protection scheme in WordPress before 2.0.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a CSRF attack with an invalid token and quote characters or HTML tags in URL variable names, which are not properly handled when WordPress generates a new link to verify the request.

Affected products

WordPress: 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5

References

http://osvdb.org/33397
http://secunia.com/advisories/23595
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2114
http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/wordpress-206/
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_012007.140.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456048/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21893
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0061
http://osvdb.org/33397
http://secunia.com/advisories/23595
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2114
http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/wordpress-206/

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