WordPress Core 2.2.1 - Backdoor

2007-03-03 00:00

Ivan Fratric

Strategic Overview

Status

Patched in 2.2.2

Affected CoreWordPress 2.2

Affected Version2.2.1

CVSS9.8Critical

CVECVE-2007-1277

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Vulnerability Overview

WordPress 2.1.1, as downloaded from some official distribution sites during February and March 2007, contains an externally introduced backdoor that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via (1) an eval injection vulnerability in the ix parameter to wp-includes/feed.php, and (2) an untrusted passthru call in the iz parameter to wp-includes/theme.php.

Technical Analysis

REMEDIATION: Update to version 2.2.2, or a newer patched version --- IDENTIFIER: CWE-506 (Embedded Malicious Code) The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.

External References

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2007-1277 https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/e5539ad8-4203-4d22-9a40-0ed6e0471e19

CVSS Vector

9.8

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

Base

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

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