WordPress Core <= 2.0.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery to Cross-Site Scripting

2007-01-05 00:00

Stefan Esser

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 2.0.6

Affected CoreWordPress 2.0

Affected Version<= 2.0.5

CVSS8.8High

CVECVE-2007-0106

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Vulnerability Overview

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CSRF protection scheme in WordPress before 2.0.6 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a CSRF attack with an invalid token and quote characters or HTML tags in URL variable names, which are not properly handled when WordPress generates a new link to verify the request.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.0.6, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-352 (Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)) The web application does not, or cannot, sufficiently verify whether a request was intentionally provided by the user who sent the request, which could have originated from an unauthorized actor.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-0106 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/37f7f9ef-d57a-41e9-bd2c-2aa04a82b6c4

CVSS Vector

8.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Base

Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionRequired
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityHigh
AvailabilityHigh

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