CVE-2008-5278

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-5278
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-11-28 19:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionCross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the self_link function in in the RSS Feed Generator (wp-includes/feed.php) for WordPress before 2.6.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Host header (HTTP_HOST variable).

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 4.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Problem Types: CWE-79 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Partial
Availability
None

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Wordpress Wordpress 0.6.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 0.6.2 beta_2 All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 0.6.2.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 0.6.2.1 beta_2 All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 0.7 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 0.71 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 0.71-gold All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 0.711 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 0.72 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 0.72 beta1 All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 0.72 beta2 All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 0.72 rc1 All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.0 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.0-platinum All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.0.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.0.1-miles All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.0.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.0.2-blakey All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.2 beta All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.2-delta All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.2-mingus All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.2.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.2.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.3.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.4 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.5 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.5-strayhorn All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.5.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.5.1.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.5.1.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.5.1.3 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.5.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 1.6 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.10 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.10_rc1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.10_rc2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.11 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.3 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.4 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.5 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.6 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.7 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.8 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.0.9 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.1 alpha_3 All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.1.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.1.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.1.3 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.1.3_rc1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.1.3_rc2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.2.0 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.2.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.2.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.2.3 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.2_revision5002 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.2_revision5003 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.3 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.3 beta3 All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.3 rc1 All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.3.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.3.1 rc1 All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.3.2 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.3.3 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.5 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.5.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.6 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress 2.6.1 All All All
Application Wordpress Wordpress All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: wordpress-2.6.5-2.fc9 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
CXSecurity.com - IT Security News af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securityreason.com
WordPress "Host" Header RSS Feed Script Insertion Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit
osvdb.org/50214 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 osvdb.org
News – WordPress 2.6.5 – WordPress.org af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wordpress.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
WordPress 'wp-includes/feed.php' Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: wordpress-2.6.5-2.fc8 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Fedora update for wordpress - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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