VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2009-2851
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the administrator interface in WordPress before 2.8.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a comment author URL.
MEDIUM 4.3EPSS 7.90%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (7.90%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the administrator interface in WordPress before 2.8.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a comment author URL.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 7.90% probability · 94th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- wordpress/wordpress
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.