CVE-2009-2851

MediumCVSS 4.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Aug 18, 2009
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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