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CVE-2007-1049

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-1049 describes a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the wp_explain_nonce function within WordPress versions 2.0.x before 2.0.9 and 2.1.x before 2.1.1, affecting the nonce AYS functionality. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML, primarily through the file parameter to wp-admin/templates.php. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, an ExploitDB entry exists, and the CVE has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.6.2:beta_2:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.6.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.6.2.1:beta_2:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.71CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:0.71:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:1.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-29598 · Feb 12, 2007
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0627 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

downloads.securityfocus.com / vulnerabilities/exploits/22534.html
Exploit
osvdb.org / 33766
secunia.com / advisories/24306
secunia.com / advisories/24566
trac.wordpress.org / changeset/4876
Patch
trac.wordpress.org / changeset/4877
trac.wordpress.org / ticket/3781
Vendor Advisory
gentoo.org / security/en/glsa/glsa-200703-23.xml
securityfocus.com / bid/22534
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/0741