CVE-2008-5278

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-11-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the self_link function in in the RSS Feed Generator (wp-includes/feed.php) for WordPress before 2.6.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Host header (HTTP_HOST variable).

Affected products

WordPress: through 2.6.3; 0.6.2, 0.6.2-beta_2, 0.6.2.1, 0.6.2.1-beta_2, 0.7, 0.71 (+67)

References

http://osvdb.org/50214
http://secunia.com/advisories/32882
http://secunia.com/advisories/32966
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4662
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498652
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32476
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46882
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00000.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00176.html
http://osvdb.org/50214
http://secunia.com/advisories/32882

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