Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the CSRF protection scheme in WordPress before 2.0.6 allows remote attackers to inject…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.0% · top 13% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• 2114 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
• 20070105 Advisory 01/2007: WordPress CSRF Protection XSS Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://wordpress.org/development/2007/01/wordpress-206/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 23595 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 33397 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• ADV-2007-0061 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 21893 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://www.hardened-php.net/advisory_012007.140.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2007-0106](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2007-0106.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2007-0106)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 12:03 UTC.