CVE-2014-9031

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.

References

https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031243

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71237

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:233

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3085

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/62

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/12

http://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress.html

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3