CVE-2007-5229
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.2 plugin for WordPress allows remote attackers to change…
- 6.4MediumCVSS base score
- 4.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.8% 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 FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.2 plugin for WordPress allows remote attackers to change settings and hijack blog feeds via a request to wp-admin/options-general.php that submits parameter values to FeedBurner_FeedSmith_Plugin.php, as demonstrated by the (1) feedburner_url and (2) feedburner_comments_url parameters.
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. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- WordPress Plugin Google FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 30637webapps, phppublished 4 Oct 2007Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 30637 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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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 | Medium6.4 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.9% · top 7.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 20071003 Hijacking Feeds with Feedburner (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- feedburner-feedsmith-plugin-csrf(36940) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 27055 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 30637 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/feedburner-feed-hijacking/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 25921 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/feedsmith-feedburner-vulnerability-fixed/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/10/the_feedsmith_plugin_newly_for.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2007-5209 (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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