CVE-2009-3891
LOW · CVSS 3.5EPSS 2.2%EU EUVD
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/press-this.php in WordPress before 2.8.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the s parameter (aka the selection variable).
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 3.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 2.2% (82th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-3862)
- Published
- November 17, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-3862 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on September 16, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- wordpress / wordpress
References
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11119/press-this-xss-bug-11-10-2009.patch(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11119/press-this.002.diff(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11119(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37332(Third Party Advisory)
- http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/wordpress-2-8-6-security-release/(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/15/2(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/15/3(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/16/1(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.osvdb.org/59959(Broken Link)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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