PT-2014-8801 · WordPress · Wordpress

Jouko Pynnonen · Published 2014-11-25 · Updated 2015-10-05 · CVE-2014-9031

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 3.7.5 WordPress versions 3.8.x prior to 3.8.5 WordPress versions 3.9.x prior to 3.9.3

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists due to a vulnerability in the wptexturize function. This allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted use of shortcode brackets in a text field, such as in a comment or a post.

Recommendations For WordPress versions prior to 3.7.5, update to version 3.7.5 or later. For WordPress versions 3.8.x prior to 3.8.5, update to version 3.8.5 or later. For WordPress versions 3.9.x prior to 3.9.3, update to version 3.9.3 or later.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-9031

DLA-236-1

DSA-3085-1

MGASA-2014-0493

Affected Products

Wordpress

References · 17

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9031 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-9031 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:233 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9031 · Vendor Advisory
• https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9031 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html · Security Note
• http://debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3085 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2014-0493 · Vendor Advisory
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/12 · Note
• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14625 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1031243 · Note
• http://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress.html · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9031 · Note
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html · Note