XSS in Wordpress

CVE-2007-1732

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in an mt import in wp-admin/admin.php in WordPress 2.1.2 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the demo parameter. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained solely from third party information. NOTE: another researcher disputes this issue, stating that this is legitimate functionality for administrators. However, it has been patched by at least one vendor

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.015 (72.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Wordpress — versions 2.1.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

  • cve@mitre.org (Product, x_refsource_MISC)
  • cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
  • cve@mitre.org (Permissions Required, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (Permissions Required, x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
  • cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ, Mailing List)