CVE-2007-1049

Wordpress vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

6.3%

EPSS pct

93th

Exploited

No known

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the wp_explain_nonce function in the nonce AYS functionality (wp-includes/functions.php) for WordPress 2.0 before 2.0.9 and 2.1 before 2.1.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the file parameter to wp-admin/templates.php, and possibly other vectors involving the action variable.

Affected vendor

Wordpress

Affected product

Wordpress

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Published

2007-02-21

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 6.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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