CVE-2013-0236

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-07-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in WordPress before 3.5.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving (1) gallery shortcodes or (2) the content of a post.

Affected products

WordPress: through 3.5.0; 0.71, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.1, 1.2 (+69)

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.1
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/23317
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/23322
http://wordpress.org/news/2013/01/wordpress-3-5-1/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904121
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.1
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/23317
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/23322
http://wordpress.org/news/2013/01/wordpress-3-5-1/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=904121

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