PT-2011-1595 · WordPress · Wordpress

Published 2011-01-03 · Updated 2017-11-21 · CVE-2010-4536

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 3.0.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via several vectors, including the ampersand character, the case of an attribute name, a padded entity, and an entity that is not in normalized form.

Recommendations For WordPress versions prior to 3.0.4, update to version 3.0.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting user input to minimize the risk of exploitation. Avoid using potentially malicious characters or entities in user input until the issue is resolved.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-4536

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 15

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4536 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053289.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4536 · Vendor Advisory
• http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17172/branches/3.0 · Vendor Advisory
• http://wordpress.org/news/2010/12/3-0-4-update · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/30/1 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2010-4536 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4536 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053293.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3335 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43000 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42755 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0167 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/45620 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4536 · Note