Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting wordpress package, versions <2.8.3-1
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EPSS
0.45% (76th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-WORDPRESS-363361
- published 18 Aug 2009
- disclosed 18 Aug 2009
Introduced: 18 Aug 2009
CVE-2009-2851 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable
wordpress
to version 2.8.3-1 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.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-2851
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html
- http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900
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