CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-2431

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2009-07-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-07-10
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

WordPress 2.7.1 places the username of a post's author in an HTML comment, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the HTML source.

Affected configurations

• wordpress wordpress 2.7.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-615 Inclusion of Sensitive Information in Source Code Comments weakness

References