CVE-2010-4536
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in KSES, as used in WordPress before 3.0.4, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to (1) the & (ampersand) character, (2) the case of an attribute name, (3) a padded entity, and (4) an entity that is not in normalized form.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 3.0.4+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 3.0.4+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 3.0.4+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 3.0.4+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 3.0.4+dfsg-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| wordpress | wordpress | {"endIncluding":"3.0.3"} | |
References
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17172/branches/3.0
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053289.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053293.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/42755
- http://secunia.com/advisories/43000
- http://wordpress.org/news/2010/12/3-0-4-update/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/30/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45620
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3335
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0167
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4536
CWEs
CWE-79
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.