CVE-2007-1277
WordPress 2.1.1, as downloaded from some official distribution sites during February and March 2007, contains an externally introduced…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 27.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
WordPress 2.1.1, as downloaded from some official distribution sites during February and March 2007, contains an externally introduced backdoor that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via (1) an eval injection vulnerability in the ix parameter to wp-includes/feed.php, and (2) an untrusted passthru call in the iz parameter to wp-includes/theme.php.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
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Exploit-DB2 entries
- WordPress Core 2.1.1 - Arbitrary Command Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 29701webapps, phppublished 2 Mar 2007Verified
- WordPress Core 2.1.1 - '/wp-includes/theme.php?iz' Arbitrary Command Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 29702webapps, phppublished 2 Mar 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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By mitre
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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 27.8% · top 1.9% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- 20070303 WordPress source code compromised to enable remote code execution (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- VU#214480 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- wordpress-theme-command-execution(32807) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- wordpress-feed-code-execution(32804) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 22797 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2007-0812 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- VU#641456 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- http://ifsec.blogspot.com/2007/03/wordpress-code-compromised-to-enable.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 24374 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2007-1274 (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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