CVE-2007-5229
Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the FeedBurner FeedSmith 2.2 plugin for WordPress allows remote attackers to change settings and hijack blog feeds via a request to wp-admin/options-general.php that submits parameter values to FeedBurner_FeedSmith_Plugin.php, as demonstrated by the (1) feedburner_url and (2) feedburner_comments_url parameters.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.4 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-352
- EPSS score
- 4.9% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-5209)
- Published
- October 5, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-5209 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- feedburner / feedsmith
References
- http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/10/the_feedsmith_plugin_newly_for.php
- http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/feedburner-feed-hijacking/(Exploit)
- http://blogsecurity.net/wordpress/feedsmith-feedburner-vulnerability-fixed/
- http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=119145344606493&w=2(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27055(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25921
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36940
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/30637/
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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