Unamed ThemePlugin / extension · WordPress
CVE-2007-4166
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedCross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in index.php in the Unnamed theme 1.217, and Special Edition (SE) 1.02, before 20070804 for WordPress allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the s parameter, possibly a related issue to CVE-2007-2757, CVE-2007-4014, and CVE-2007-4165. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceCross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress themes (Unnamed theme 1.217 and Special Edition SE 1.02) allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript or HTML via the 's' parameter in index.php, likely due to unsanitized user input being reflected in the search functionality.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Unamed ThemePlugin / extension
= 1.217
Unamed Theme SePlugin / extension
= 1.02CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Authentication
- None
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Partial
- Availability
- None
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify the installed WordPress theme and versionNavigate to wp-content/themes/[theme-name]/style.css and look for the 'Version:' header in the CSS file comment block, or check the theme settings panel in WordPress admin under Appearance > ThemesAffected if The theme is either Unamed Theme version 1.217 or Special Edition SE version 1.02
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Locate the theme's index.php fileNavigate to wp-content/themes/[theme-name]/index.php in your WordPress installation directoryAffected if The file exists and belongs to one of the affected themes
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Examine the search parameter handling in index.phpOpen index.php and search for occurrences of the 's' parameter (e.g., $_GET['s'], $_POST['s'], or the variable $s) being output to HTML without sanitization functions such as htmlspecialchars() or esc_attr()Affected if The 's' parameter is echoed or printed directly into HTML output without any sanitization function applied
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Test the search functionality for XSSAccess your site's search page (typically ?s= or ?s=searchterm) and inject a test XSS payload like <script>alert('XSS')</script> in the 's' parameter to observe whether it executes or appears literally in the responseAffected if The injected JavaScript executes in the browser or appears unescaped in the search results page
A user is affected if they have either Unamed Theme 1.217 or Special Edition SE 1.02 installed and the index.php file reflects the search 's' parameter without applying htmlspecialchars() or similar output encoding.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataAdd proper output encoding (e.g., htmlspecialchars()) around the 's' parameter before reflecting it in HTML output, or implement WordPresssanitize_text_field() for search input.
Fix this in Unamed Theme
Scoped from the published advisory
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- Review / QA1.0 h
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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ContributedPeer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2007-4166 in production — separate from our analysis above.
The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.
- The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
- A config change or rule that shut the vector down
- A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon
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