CVE-2012-6633

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-01-21 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-includes/default-filters.php in WordPress before 3.3.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an editable slug field.

Affected products

WordPress: through 3.3.2; 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5 (+11)

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.3.3
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/21083
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.3.3
https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/21083

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