CVE-2007-3238

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-06-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

WordPress: 2.2

References

http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/news/news-100607-1/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
http://mybeni.rootzilla.de/mybeNi/2007/wordpress_zeroday_vulnerability_roundhouse_kick_and_why_i_nearly_wrote_the_first_blog_worm/
http://osvdb.org/37293
http://secunia.com/advisories/25541/
http://secunia.com/advisories/29014
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2807
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1502
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

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