CVE-2007-1244
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the AdminPanel in WordPress 2.1.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to perform…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 7.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the AdminPanel in WordPress 2.1.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to perform privileged actions as administrators, as demonstrated using the delete action in wp-admin/post.php. NOTE: this issue can be leveraged to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks and steal cookies via the post parameter.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- WordPress Core 2.1.1 - 'post.php' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 29682webapps, phppublished 26 Feb 2007Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.5% · top 5.4% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- wordpress-post-csrf(32703) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20070226 WordPress AdminPanel CSRF/XSS - 0day (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 20070226 WordPress AdminPanel CSRF/XSS - 0day (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 22735 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 24566 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 33787 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- GLSA-200703-23 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 33788 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-1241 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2007-1244)Record last updated .