CVE-2009-3891

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-11-17 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/press-this.php in WordPress before 2.8.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the s parameter (aka the selection variable).

Affected products

WordPress: through 2.8.5

References

http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11119/press-this-xss-bug-11-10-2009.patch
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11119/press-this.002.diff
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11119
http://secunia.com/advisories/37332
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/wordpress-2-8-6-security-release/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/15/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/15/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/11/16/1
http://www.osvdb.org/59959
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11119/press-this-xss-bug-11-10-2009.patch
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11119/press-this.002.diff
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11119

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