CVE-2011-0700

Severity: low (CVSS 3.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-03-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WordPress before 3.0.5 allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to (1) the Quick/Bulk Edit title (aka post title or post_title), (2) post_status, (3) comment_status, (4) ping_status, and (5) escaping of tags within the tags meta box.

Affected products

WordPress: through 3.0.4

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0.5
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17397
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17401
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17406
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17412
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056412.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/056998.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-March/057003.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/08/7
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/02/09/13
http://secunia.com/advisories/43729
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2190

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