WordPress Core 2.2.1 - Backdoor

Embedded Malicious Code
CVE CVE-2007-1277
CVSS Critical (9.8)
Publicly Published March 3, 2007
Last Updated January 22, 2024
Researcher Ivan Fratric
Description

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.

References

1 affected software package

Software Type Core
Software Slug wordpress (view on wordpress.org)
Patched? Yes
Affected Version
  • 2.2.1 - 2.2.1
Patched Version
  • 2.2.2
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