CVE-2007-1049

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-02-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the wp_explain_nonce function in the nonce AYS functionality (wp-includes/functions.php) for WordPress 2.0 before 2.0.9 and 2.1 before 2.1.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the file parameter to wp-admin/templates.php, and possibly other vectors involving the action variable.

Affected products

WordPress: 0.6.2-beta_2, 0.6.2.1-beta_2, 0.7, 0.71, 1.2.2, 1.5 (+14)

References

http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/22534.html
http://osvdb.org/33766
http://secunia.com/advisories/24306
http://secunia.com/advisories/24566
http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4876
http://trac.wordpress.org/changeset/4877
http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/3781
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-23.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22534
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0741
http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/22534.html
http://osvdb.org/33766

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