PT-2009-5209 · WordPress · Wordpress

Jan Lieskovsky · Published 2009-08-18 · Updated 2017-12-07 · CVE-2009-2851

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 2.8.2

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists in the administrator interface, allowing remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a comment author URL.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.8.2, update to version 2.8.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2009-2851

DSA-1871-1

DSA-1871-2

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 14

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/9250 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2009-2851 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-2851 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2009-2851 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-2851 · Security Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1 · Note
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2851 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900 · Note