XSS in WordPress
CVE-2009-2851
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.
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.079 (94.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 94.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.079 · newest: 0.079 · change: 0.000
Affected products
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1 (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/ (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2009-2851?
- CVE-2009-2851 is a vulnerability in WordPress, classified under Cross-site Scripting. Published 2009-08-18.
- Is CVE-2009-2851 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.