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.

CVSS v2.0 NVD

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

EPSS

7.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 95th percentile

Published

2009-08-18

Updated

2024-08-07

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9250

Security advisories

• http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html
• https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry