CVE-2009-2851

N/A Unknown

Published: August 18, 2009 Modified: April 23, 2026

Description

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492

Source: cve@mitre.org

Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory

http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900

Source: cve@mitre.org

Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492