4.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2014-9031

Published: 25/11/2014 Updated: 05/10/2015
CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.3 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
VMScore: 383
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the wptexturize function in WordPress prior to 3.7.5, 3.8.x prior to 3.8.5, and 3.9.x prior to 3.9.3 allows remote malicious users 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.

Vulnerability Trend

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #783347 wordpress: New critical security release available: 412 (CVE-2015-3438 CVE-2015-3439) Package: wordpress; Maintainer for wordpress is Craig Small <csmall@debianorg>; Source for wordpress is src:wordpress (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Christer Mjellem Strand <dilldall@bjorkorg> ...
Debian Bug report logs - #770425 wordpress: CVE-2014-9031 CVE-2014-9032 CVE-2014-9033 CVE-2014-9034 CVE-2014-9035 CVE-2014-9036 CVE-2014-9037 CVE-2014-9038 CVE-2014-9039 (issues fixed in 401 security release) Package: src:wordpress; Maintainer for src:wordpress is Craig Small <csmall@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bona ...
Debian Bug report logs - #783554 wordpress: New critical security release available: 421 (CVE-2015-3440) Package: src:wordpress; Maintainer for src:wordpress is Craig Small <csmall@debianorg>; Reported by: Craig Small <csmall@debianorg> Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2015 22:24:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: security Found ...

Github Repositories

Tool for abusing XSS vulnerabilities on Wordpress and Joomla! installations

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