CVE-2009-2851

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2009-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

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.

Affected products

WordPress: through 2.8.1

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492
http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871

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