THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2007-5229
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2007-5229

Feedsmith vulnerability

CVSS
6.4
EPSS
4.9%
EPSS pct
91th
Exploited
No known
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.2 plugin for WordPress allows remote attackers to change settings and hijack blog feeds via a request to wp-admin/options-general.php that submits parameter values to FeedBurner_FeedSmith_Plugin.php, as demonstrated by the (1) feedburner_url and (2) feedburner_comments_url parameters.
Affected vendor
Feedburner
Affected product
Feedsmith
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
Published
2007-10-05

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 4.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-5229

  • Confirm whether Feedburner Feedsmith is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-5229.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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