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Status published
Medium
CVE-2009-2851
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the administrator interface in WordPress...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871
- http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900
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Vulnerable Versions:
0
Timeline
Official Publish:
August 18th, 2009
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
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MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
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