PT-2014-8801

CVE-2014-9031

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Published

2014-11-25

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Updated

2015-10-05

Description by

CVSS 2.0
4.3
Medium
MetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions WordPress versions prior to 3.7.5 WordPress versions 3.8.x prior to 3.8.5 WordPress versions 3.9.x prior to 3.9.3
Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue exists due to a vulnerability in the wptexturize function. This allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted use of shortcode brackets in a text field, such as in a comment or a post.
Recommendations For WordPress versions prior to 3.7.5, update to version 3.7.5 or later. For WordPress versions 3.8.x prior to 3.8.5, update to version 3.8.5 or later. For WordPress versions 3.9.x prior to 3.9.3, update to version 3.9.3 or later.
Exploitability
Fix
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Researchers
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Affected products
Related identifiers
DLA-236-1
DSA-3085-1
MGASA-2014-0493
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