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.
Published: 2009-08-18
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: 3.0% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1871-1 New wordpress packages fix several vulnerabilities
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-1871-2 New wordpress packages fix regression
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-2841 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.
History

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Wordpress Wordpress
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:07:36.395Z

Reserved: 2009-08-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-2851

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-08-18T21:00:00.517

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-2851

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2009-02-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2009-2851 - Bugzilla

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