CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-9031

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2014-11-25 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2014-11-25
Last modified
2026-06-17
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 wptexturize function in WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, and 3.9.x before 3.9.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted use of shortcode brackets in a text field, as demonstrated by a comment or a post.

Affected configurations

• wordpress wordpress (<= 3.7.4) • wordpress wordpress 3.8 • wordpress wordpress 3.8.1 • wordpress wordpress 3.8.2 • wordpress wordpress 3.8.3 • wordpress wordpress 3.8.4 • wordpress wordpress 3.9 • wordpress wordpress 3.9.1 • wordpress wordpress 3.9.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness

References