CVE-2009-2851
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 7.9%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 7.9% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-2841)
- Published
- August 18, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-2841 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- wordpress / wordpress
References
- 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)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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