Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 15, 2007· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2007-3238
CVE-2007-3238
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.
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Affected products
2cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: = 2.2
Patches
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References
12- blogsecurity.net/wordpress/news/news-100607-1/nvd
- codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilitiesnvd
- mybeni.rootzilla.de/mybeNi/2007/wordpress_zeroday_vulnerability_roundhouse_kick_and_why_i_nearly_wrote_the_first_blog_worm/nvd
- osvdb.org/37293nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/25541/nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/29014nvd
- securityreason.com/securityalert/2807nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1502nvd
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470837/100/0/threadednvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/25161nvd
- www.xssnews.comnvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34785nvd
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