CVE-2007-2627 — Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in sidebar.php in WordPress, when custom 404 pages that call get_sidebar are used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string (PHP_SELF), a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-1622

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Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in sidebar.php in WordPress, when custom 404 pages that call get_sidebar are used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string (PHP_SELF), a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-1622

Published May 11, 2007

6.8

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.33%

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in sidebar.php in WordPress, when custom 404 pages that call get_sidebar are used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string (PHP_SELF), a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-1622.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

2.33% 0.02327

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.02327

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (17 key points)

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Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	2.33% (0.02327)	82.89th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	2.33% (0.02327)	81.22th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Mar 24, 2025	0.69% (0.00689)	69.43th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 23, 2025	1.69% (0.01692)	78.60th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	0.52% (0.00524)	64.99th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.52% (0.00521)	77.61th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 14, 2024	0.49% (0.00488)	75.56th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2024	0.45% (0.00446)	74.38th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 5, 2024	0.45% (0.00446)	72.38th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Dec 29, 2023	0.43% (0.00430)	71.77th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Nov 21, 2023	0.42% (0.00423)	71.45th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Oct 13, 2023	0.41% (0.00406)	70.78th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.45% (0.00452)	71.26th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://osvdb.org/37296
vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2694
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467360/100/0/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Link	Providers	Tags
http://osvdb.org/37296		vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2694		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/467360/100/0/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published May 11, 2007

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved May 11, 2007

Link CVE-2007-2627

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2007-2627

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2007-2627