CVE-2009-3891

LowCVSS 3.5/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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).

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 3.5/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-79

Affected software

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

References

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

Timeline

Published: Nov 17, 2009
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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