CVE-2007-1277 (GCVE-0-2007-1277)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-03-05 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 12:50
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/214480 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22797 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0812 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://wordpress.org/development/2007/03/upgrade-212/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/641456 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VN
http://ifsec.blogspot.com/2007/03/wordpress-code-… x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/24374 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2007-03-02 00:00
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