CVE-2007-1622
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/vars.php in WordPress before 2.0.10 RC2, and before 2.1.3 RC2 in the 2.1 series,…
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Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/vars.php in WordPress before 2.0.10 RC2, and before 2.1.3 RC2 in the 2.1 series, allows remote authenticated users with theme privileges to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO in the administration interface, related to loose regular expression processing of PHP_SELF.
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.
Exploit-DB1 entry
- WordPress Core < 2.1.2 - 'PHP_Self' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 29754webapps, phppublished 19 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
ID reserved
By mitre
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.0% · top 6.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- ADV-2007-1005 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-advisory.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 23027 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 25108 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 24567 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-1285 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://sla.ckers.org/forum/read.php?2%2C7935#msg-8006 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2007-1616 (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-2007-1622)Record last updated .