Vulnerability CVE-2007-0106
Published: 2007-01-08   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

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Topic
Author
Date
Low
WordPress CSRF Protection XSS Vulnerability
Stefan Esser (se...
09.01.2007

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Wordpress -> Wordpress 

 References:
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2114
http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/wordpress-206/
http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_012007.140.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456048/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21893
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0061
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