CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2851
4.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-08-18
- 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 administrator interface in WordPress before 2.8.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a comment author URL.
Affected configurations
• wordpress wordpress (<= 2.8.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/ Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory