Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/plugins.php in WordPress before 3.0.2 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a plugin's author field, which is not properly handled during a Delete Plugin action.
Published: 2014-01-21
Score: 4.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2010-5254 Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/plugins.php in WordPress before 3.0.2 might allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a plugin's author field, which is not properly handled during a Delete Plugin action.
History

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00368}

epss

{'score': 0.005}


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Wordpress Wordpress
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-16T22:24:54.535Z

Reserved: 2014-01-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2010-5295

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-01-21T01:55:03.247

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2010-5295

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Weaknesses