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

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, 94th percentile

Nuclei

high

Published

2009-08-18

Updated

2024-08-07

Nuclei templates (1)

• topscoder/nuclei-wordfence-cve/blob/main/nuclei-templates/2009/CVE-2009-2851-wordpress-d0…

ExploitDB entries (1)

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

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2009-2847
• CVE-2009-2852
• CVE-2009-2820
• CVE-2009-2853
• CVE-2009-2817
• CVE-2009-2854