CVE-2007-3240 Cross-site scripting in n/a

What is CVE-2007-3240?

CVE-2007-3240 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Wordpress Wordpress, published on 15 Jun 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in 404.php in the Vistered-Little theme for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the URI (REQUEST_URI) that accesses index.php. NOTE: this can be leveraged for PHP code execution in an administrative session.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-3240?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Wordpress Wordpress.

How do I fix CVE-2007-3240?

No fix has been published for CVE-2007-3240 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2007-3240 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-3240 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2026-63030 WordPress Core Interpretation Conflict Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-87902 WordPress Core Remote File Inclusion Exploited High 8.1
• CVE-2026-60137 WordPress Core SQL Injection Exploited Medium 5.9
• CVE-2012-2399 Cross-site scripting in n/a Critical 10.0
• CVE-2012-2400 Other in n/a Critical 10.0

All Wordpress Wordpress vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-pwp5-jmpj-2v4w.