7.2

CVE-2009-2851: wordpress Cross-site Scripting

CVSS: 7.2v3.1HighModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2009-2851
Published 18-08-2009Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2009-2851 is a high (CVSS 7.2) Cross-site Scripting vulnerability in wordpress. EPSS estimates a 7.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94.6% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded. Fixed in 2.8.2.

Overall risk
40/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.2/10
010
High · v3.1 (wordfence)
EPSS score
7.90%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1exploit-database

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 2
DSA-1871-1DSA-1871-2

Timeline

  1. 18-08-2009
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

2 scores · 2 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

7.90%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

95%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 7.90% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
7.90%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • exploit-databasephpVerified

    WordPress Core 2.8.1 - 'url' Cross-Site Scripting

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Wordpress2 products
  • wordpress≤ 2.8.1 (fixed in 2.8.2)
  • wordpress≤ 2.8.1
Debian1 product
  • wordpress< 2.8.3-1

2 vendors · 3 products

References

10 links