CVE-2009-2851

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-2851
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-08-18 21:00:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionCross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the administrator interface in WordPress before 2.8.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a comment author URL.

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 All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: wordpress-2.8.2-1.fc10 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: wordpress-2.8.2-1.fc11 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.redhat.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - CVE Request -- WordPress af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
512900 – (CVE-2009-2851) CVE-2009-2851 WordPress: XSS via unescaped HTML URLs as author comments in the admin page af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
News – WordPress 2.8.2 – WordPress.org af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 wordpress.org Patch, Vendor Advisory
SecurityTracker.com Archives - WordPress Input Validation Flaw in Comment Author URLs Permits Cross-Site Scripting Attacks af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
278492 – <www-apps/wordpress-2.8.2 XSS Vulnerability in Comment author URLs (CVE-2009-2851) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1871-1 wordpress af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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