CVE-2007-1622

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-03-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

WordPress: 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+8)

References

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

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