National Cyber Awareness System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-0106
Original release date:01/09/2007
Last revised:03/08/2011
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: BID
Name: 21893
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/wordpress-206/
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-0061
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070105 Advisory 01/2007: WordPress CSRF Protection XSS Vulnerability
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_012007.140.html
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23595
Type: Advisory
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 33397
External Source: SREASON
Name: 2114