Mend.io Vulnerability Database

What is a CVE vulnerability ID? icon What is a WS vulnerability ID? icon What is an MSC vulnerability ID? icon
New vulnerability? Tell us about it!
icon

We found results for “”

CVE-2008-5278

Date: November 28, 2008

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).

Severity Score

Related Resources (12)

http://secunia.com/advisories/32882
http://osvdb.org/50214
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32476
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00000.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46882
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5278
http://secunia.com/advisories/32966
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00176.html
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4662
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498652
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-5278

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

CWE-79

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): NONE

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): NONE
Additional information:

Do you need more information?

Contact Us