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CVE-2009-2851 Detail

Current 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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  08/18/2009
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Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.3 MEDIUM
Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

Access Vector (AV): Network
Access Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Partial
Availability (A): None
Additional Information:
Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
Allows unauthorized modification

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Hyperlink Resource
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492 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
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
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)

  • Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) (CWE-79)

Change History

3 change records found - show changes

Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-2851
NVD Published Date:
08/18/2009
NVD Last Modified:
12/07/2017