CVE-2014-9031: XSS
First published: Tue Nov 25 2014(Updated: )
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the wptexturize function in WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, and 3.9.x before 3.9.3 allows remote attackers 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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| WordPress WordPress | <=3.7.4 | |
| WordPress WordPress | =3.8 | |
| WordPress WordPress | =3.8.1 | |
| WordPress WordPress | =3.8.2 | |
| WordPress WordPress | =3.8.3 | |
| WordPress WordPress | =3.8.4 | |
| WordPress WordPress | =3.9 | |
| WordPress WordPress | =3.9.1 | |
| WordPress WordPress | =3.9.2 |
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Reference Links
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html
- http://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress.html
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/25/12
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Nov/62
- http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3085
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:233
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71237
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031243
- https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/
- agent/type
- agent/softwarecombine
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/first-publish-date
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/software-canonical-lookup-request
- agent/author
- agent/references
- agent/severity
- agent/remedy
- agent/weakness
- agent/tags
- agent/description
- agent/event
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- vendor/wordpress
- canonical/wordpress wordpress
- version/wordpress wordpress/3.7.4
- version/wordpress wordpress/3.8
- version/wordpress wordpress/3.8.1
- version/wordpress wordpress/3.8.2
- version/wordpress wordpress/3.8.3
- version/wordpress wordpress/3.8.4
- version/wordpress wordpress/3.9
- version/wordpress wordpress/3.9.1
- version/wordpress wordpress/3.9.2