CVE-2014-9031
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 5.2%EU EUVD
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the wptexturize function in WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, and 3.9.x before 3.9.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted use of shortcode brackets in a text field, as demonstrated by a comment or a post.
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
- 5.2% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-8859)
- Published
- November 25, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-8859 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- wordpress / wordpress
- wordpress / wordpress
- wordpress / wordpress
- wordpress / wordpress
- wordpress / wordpress
- wordpress / wordpress
- wordpress / wordpress
- wordpress / wordpress
- wordpress / wordpress
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html
- http://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/12
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/62
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3085
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:233
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71237
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031243
- https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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