CVE-2008-5278

Medium

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the self_link function in in the RSS Feed Generator (wp-includes/feed.php) for WordPress before 2.6.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Host header (HTTP_HOST variable).

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.3
Exploit probability—
ProductWordpress
PublishedNov 28, 2008
First seenNov 28, 2008

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
wordpress wordpressv ≤ 2.6.3, 0.6.2, 0.6.2.1, 0.7, 0.71, 0.71-gold, 0.72, 0.711, 1.0, 1.0-platinum, 1.0.1, 1.0.1-miles, 1.0.2, 1.0.2-blakey, 1.2, 1.2-delta, 1.2-mingus, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3.1, 1.4, 1.5, 1.5-strayhorn, 1.5.1, 1.5.1.1, 1.5.1.2, 1.5.1.3, 1.5.2, 1.6, 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.0.8, 2.0.9, 2.0.10, 2.0.10_rc1, 2.0.10_rc2, 2.0.11, 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.1.3_rc1, 2.1.3_rc2, 2.2, 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2_revision5002, 2.2_revision5003, 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.5, 2.5.1, 2.6, 2.6.1—

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