CVE-2009-2851

23Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 7.9%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDAug 18

1st PoCJul 24

exploitation probability

7.9%top 6% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/9250

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900 http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1