CVE-2009-3891

CVSS V2 Low 3.5 CVSS V3 None

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/press-this.php in WordPress before 2.8.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the s parameter (aka the selection variable).

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2009-3891

Assigner
secalert@redhat.com

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2009-11-17T18:30:00

Last Modified Date
2017-11-22T17:16:52

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		2.8.5

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
MEDIUM

Authentication
SINGLE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
NONE

Base Score
3.5

Severity
LOW

Exploitability Score
6.8

Impact Score
2.9

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/15/2	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37332	Third Party Advisory
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11119	Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/15/3	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11119/press-this.002.diff	Patch Vendor Advisory
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11119/press-this-xss-bug-11-10-2009.patch	Patch Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/16/1	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
http://www.osvdb.org/59959	Broken Link
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/wordpress-2-8-6-security-release/	Patch Vendor Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3891
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-3891

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 08:10:51				Added to TrackCVE