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.
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 7.90% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 94.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Low. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2009-08-18 20:41Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 06:07Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-08-18
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 345b21b1cfadce341afd7e98fb0ef9f21c5d8842217fcbed9f72ea041798aa6b
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20090721 CVE Request -- WordPresshttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2009-8114https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-1871http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871
- wordpress.orghttp://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2009-8109https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html
- securitytracker.com1022589http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589
- bugs.gentoo.orghttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- wordpress Fixed in 2.8.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- wordpress Fixed in 2.8.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- wordpress Fixed in 2.8.3-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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