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medium 4.3

CVE-2007-1622 json

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, allow…

published 2007-03-23 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-1616

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.0%
EPSS 6.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • wordpress Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.1.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2007-1622

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-29754)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

5.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-29754 WordPress Core < 2.1.2 - 'PHP_Self' Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2007-03-19
  • buayacorp.com http://www.buayacorp.com/files/wordpress/wordpress-advisory.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.