CVE-2007-3238
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in functions.php in the default theme in WordPress 2.2 allows remote authenticated administrators…
- 6.0MediumCVSS base score
- 2.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 19% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
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 | Medium6.0 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
12
- DSA-1502 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/news/news-100607-1/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 25161 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- wordpress-themes-xss(34785) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 2807 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://www.xssnews.com/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 37293 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 25541 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://mybeni.rootzilla.de/mybeNi/2007/wordpress_zeroday_vulnerability_roundhouse_kick_and_why_i_nearly_wrote_the_first_blog_worm/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20070608 Wordpress default theme XSS (admin) and other problems (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 29014 (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-2007-3228 (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-2007-3238)Record last updated .