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

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
CVE CVE-2007-0106
CVSS High (8.8)
Publicly Published January 5, 2007
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Stefan Esser
Description

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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Core
Software Slug wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • <= 2.0.5
Patched Version
  • 2.0.6
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