CVE-2007-5229

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-10-05 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-352

Description

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.2 plugin for WordPress allows remote attackers to change settings and hijack blog feeds via a request to wp-admin/options-general.php that submits parameter values to FeedBurner_FeedSmith_Plugin.php, as demonstrated by the (1) feedburner_url and (2) feedburner_comments_url parameters.

Affected products

Feedburner Feedsmith: 2.2

References

http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/10/the_feedsmith_plugin_newly_for.php
http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/feedburner-feed-hijacking/
http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/feedsmith-feedburner-vulnerability-fixed/
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=119145344606493&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/27055
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25921
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36940
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/30637/
http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/10/the_feedsmith_plugin_newly_for.php
http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/feedburner-feed-hijacking/
http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/feedsmith-feedburner-vulnerability-fixed/
http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=119145344606493&w=2

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