CVE-2009-2851

medium

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.

References

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/

http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2009-08-18

Updated: 2017-12-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N