CVE-2013-2205

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-07-08 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-16

Description

The default configuration of SWFUpload in WordPress before 3.5.2 has an unrestrictive security.allowDomain setting, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via a crafted web site.

Affected products

WordPress: through 3.5.1; 0.71, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.1.1, 1.2 (+70)

References

http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.2
http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/06/21/secure-swfupload/
http://wordpress.org/news/2013/06/wordpress-3-5-2/
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2718
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60759
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976784
http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.5.2
http://make.wordpress.org/core/2013/06/21/secure-swfupload/
http://wordpress.org/news/2013/06/wordpress-3-5-2/
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2718
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60759
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=976784

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