CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
AI Score
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
75.2%
WordPress is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because the
application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:wordpress:wordpress";
if (description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.100239");
script_version("2023-07-27T05:05:08+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-07-27 05:05:08 +0000 (Thu, 27 Jul 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2009-07-22 19:53:45 +0200 (Wed, 22 Jul 2009)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2009-2851");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_name("WordPress Comment Author URI Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2009 Greenbone AG");
script_dependencies("gb_wordpress_http_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("wordpress/detected");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"The vendor has released an update. Please see the references
for details.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"WordPress is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because the
application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"An attacker may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary script code
in the browser of an unsuspecting user in the context of the affected site. This may help the attacker
steal cookie-based authentication credentials and launch other attacks.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Versions prior to WordPress 2.8.2 are vulnerable.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/35755");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("version_func.inc");
include("host_details.inc");
if(!port = get_app_port(cpe:CPE))
exit(0);
if(!vers = get_app_version(cpe:CPE, port:port))
exit(0);
if(version_is_less(version: vers, test_version: "2.8.2")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:vers, fixed_version:"2.8.2");
security_message(port:port, data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);