Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting wordpress package, versions <3.3.1+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.25% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-WORDPRESS-363447
  • published 6 Jan 2012
  • disclosed 6 Jan 2012

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable wordpress to version 3.3.1+dfsg-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 wp-comments-post.php in WordPress 3.3.x before 3.3.1, when Internet Explorer is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the query string in a POST operation that is not properly handled by the "Duplicate comment detected" feature.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

3.7 low