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CVE-2009-2851

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the administrator interface in WordPress before 2.8.2 allows remote attacker

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 · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 0.02987
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Weakness Classification

CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
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Affected Products & Versions

1
wordpress<= 2.8.1
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Public Exploits & PoCs

1
webappsWordPress Core 2.8.1 - 'url' Cross-Site Scriptingverified
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Scoring & Timeline

4.3
MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Published to NVD18 Aug 2009 · 09:00 PM
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/PatchVendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
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