Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting wordpress package, versions <3.0.2-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.09% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-WORDPRESS-363026
  • published 21 Jan 2014
  • disclosed 21 Jan 2014

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable wordpress to version 3.0.2-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wordpress package and not the wordpress package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the request_filesystem_credentials function in wp-admin/includes/file.php in WordPress before 3.0.2 allow remote servers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by providing a crafted error message for a (1) FTP or (2) SSH connection attempt.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

4.3 medium