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Vulnerability details: VCID-1cp7-76kz-47ed
Vulnerability ID VCID-1cp7-76kz-47ed
Aliases CVE-2007-3238
Summary Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in functions.php in the default theme in WordPress 2.2 allows remote authenticated administrators to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the PATH_INFO (REQUEST_URI) to wp-admin/themes.php, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-1622. NOTE: this might not cross privilege boundaries in some configurations, since the Administrator role has the unfiltered_html capability.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 5.4
Risk 2.7
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (0)
There are no known CWE.
System Score Found at
epss 0.01473 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2007-3238
epss 0.01473 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2007-3238
epss 0.01473 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2007-3238
epss 0.01473 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2007-3238
epss 0.01473 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2007-3238
epss 0.01473 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2007-3238
epss 0.01473 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2007-3238
epss 0.01473 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2007-3238
epss 0.01473 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2007-3238
cvssv2 6.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-3238
Reference id Reference type URL
http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/news/news-100607-1/
http://codex.wordpress.org/Roles_and_Capabilities
http://mybeni.rootzilla.de/mybeNi/2007/wordpress_zeroday_vulnerability_roundhouse_kick_and_why_i_nearly_wrote_the_first_blog_worm/
http://osvdb.org/37293
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2007-3238
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3238
http://secunia.com/advisories/25541/
http://secunia.com/advisories/29014
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2807
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34785
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1502
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470837/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25161
http://www.xssnews.com/
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2007-3238 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-3238
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2007-3238
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.80882
EPSS Score 0.01473
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T16:30:19.699887+00:00 Debian Oval Importer Import https://www.debian.org/security/oval/oval-definitions-bullseye.xml.bz2 38.0.0