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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.

Published

2009-08-18T21:00:00.517

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 4.3 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: NONE

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-79

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	wordpress	wordpress	≤ 2.8.1	Yes

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/ Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/ Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)