Re: CVE Request -- WordPress

["Steven M. Christey" <coley () linus mitre org>]

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Jan Lieskovsky wrote:

>   latest WordPress 2.8.2 version has addressed a XSS vulnerability:
>
>     XSS via unescaped HTML URLs as author comments in the admin page


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Name: CVE-2009-2851
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2851
Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20090721 CVE Request -- WordPress
Reference: URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1
Reference: CONFIRM:http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492
Reference: CONFIRM:http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/
Reference: CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900
Reference: FEDORA:FEDORA-2009-8109
Reference: URL:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html
Reference: FEDORA:FEDORA-2009-8114
Reference: URL:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html
Reference: SECTRACK:1022589
Reference: URL:http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589

Cross-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.