CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-5278
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-11-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the self_link function in in the RSS Feed Generator (wp-includes/feed.php) for WordPress before 2.6.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Host header (HTTP_HOST variable).
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 2.6.3)
• wordpress wordpress 0.6.2
• wordpress wordpress 0.6.2.1
• wordpress wordpress 0.7
• wordpress wordpress 0.71
• wordpress wordpress 0.71-gold
• wordpress wordpress 0.72
• wordpress wordpress 0.711
• wordpress wordpress 1.0
• wordpress wordpress 1.0-platinum
• wordpress wordpress 1.0.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.0.1-miles
• wordpress wordpress 1.0.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.0.2-blakey
• wordpress wordpress 1.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.2-delta
• wordpress wordpress 1.2-mingus
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.2.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.3.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.4
• wordpress wordpress 1.5
• wordpress wordpress 1.5-strayhorn
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.1
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.1.3
• wordpress wordpress 1.5.2
• wordpress wordpress 1.6
• wordpress wordpress 2.0
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.4
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.5
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.6
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.7
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.8
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.9
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.10
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.10 rc1
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.10 rc2
• wordpress wordpress 2.0.11
• wordpress wordpress 2.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.1.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.1.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.1.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.1.3 rc1
• wordpress wordpress 2.1.3 rc2
• wordpress wordpress 2.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.2.0
• wordpress wordpress 2.2.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.2.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.2.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.2 revision5002
• wordpress wordpress 2.2 revision5003
• wordpress wordpress 2.3
• wordpress wordpress 2.3.1
• wordpress wordpress 2.3.2
• wordpress wordpress 2.3.3
… and 4 more
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://osvdb.org/50214 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32882 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32966 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4662 securityreason.com
- http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498652 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32476 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46882 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00000.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00176.html www.redhat.com
- http://osvdb.org/50214 osvdb.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32882 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32966 secunia.com
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4662 securityreason.com
- http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498652 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32476 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46882 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00000.html www.redhat.com
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00176.html www.redhat.com