CVE-2010-5294

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-01-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the request_filesystem_credentials function in wp-admin/includes/file.php in WordPress before 3.0.2 allow remote servers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by providing a crafted error message for a (1) FTP or (2) SSH connection attempt.

Affected products

WordPress: through 3.0.1; 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6 (+41)

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.2
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16367
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.2
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/16367

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