CVE-2009-2851

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 None
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2009-2851
  • Assigner
  • cve@mitre.org
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Analyzed
  • Published Version
  • 2009-08-18T21:00:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2017-12-07T21:36:54
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-79 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/79.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 2.8.1
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • NONE
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900 Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/ Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2851
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2851
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 08:09:38 Added to TrackCVE