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CVE-2007-1454

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-1454 describes a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in PHP 5.2.0's ext/filter component. When FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING is used with FILTER_FLAG_STRIP_LOW, HTML tags are not properly stripped if they contain specific whitespace characters after the '<' character, allowing attackers to bypass sanitization. This medium-complexity vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) could lead to information disclosure or client-side script execution. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:php:php:5.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0130 is in the 37th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-1454

php filter extension FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING bypass

References

secunia.com / advisories/25056
secunia.com / advisories/25062
debian.org / security/2007/dsa-1283
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2007_32_php.html
php-security.org / MOPB/MOPB-18-2007.html
securityfocus.com / bid/22914