CVE-2014-9031

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-11-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the wptexturize function in WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, and 3.9.x before 3.9.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted use of shortcode brackets in a text field, as demonstrated by a comment or a post.

Affected products

WordPress: through 3.7.4; 3.8, 3.8.1, 3.8.2, 3.8.3, 3.8.4, 3.9 (+2)

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html
http://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/12
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/62
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3085
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:233
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71237
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031243
https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html
http://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress.html
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/12

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