CVE-2010-4536
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 3.4%EU EUVD
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in KSES, as used in WordPress before 3.0.4, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to (1) the & (ampersand) character, (2) the case of an attribute name, (3) a padded entity, and (4) an entity that is not in normalized form.
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
- 3.4% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-4502)
- Published
- January 3, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-4502 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- wordpress / wordpress
References
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17172/branches/3.0(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053289.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053293.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42755(Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43000(Third Party Advisory)
- http://wordpress.org/news/2010/12/3-0-4-update/(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/30/1(Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45620(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3335(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0167(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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