VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-5294

medium
Published 2014-01-21 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
4.3

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the request_filesystem_credentials function in wp-admin/includes/file.php in WordPress before 3.0.2 allow remote servers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML by providing a crafted error message for a (1) FTP or (2) SSH connection attempt.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 3.0.2-1
sid Fixed 3.0.2-1
forky Fixed 3.0.2-1
bullseye Fixed 3.0.2-1
bookworm Fixed 3.0.2-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
wordpress wordpresswordpress{"endIncluding":"3.0.1"}
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.4
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.6
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.7
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.8
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.9
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.10
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.0.11
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.1.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.1.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.1.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.2.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.2.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.2.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.3.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.3.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.3.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.5.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.6
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.6.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.6.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.6.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.6.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.7
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.7.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.3
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.4
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.5
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.5.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.5.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.8.6
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.9
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.9.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.9.1.1
wordpress wordpresswordpress2.9.2
wordpress wordpresswordpress3.0

References

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.