CVE-2007-5229

Exp

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.

Published: 2007-10-05 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2007-5229 is rated High Exploit Risk (71.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.40%). 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2007-5229

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
30637 exploit_db edb 2007-10-04 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2007-5229

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-24 3.27% 3.40% +0.13%
2 2025-12-20 3.07% 3.27% +0.20%
3 2025-03-30 — 3.07% —

Full EPSS history (16 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2007-5229

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.4 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 4.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2007-5229

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2007-5229

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
feedburner feedsmith 2.2 cpe:2.3:a:feedburner:feedsmith:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2007-5229

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