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CVE-2014-9031

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
25/11/2014
Last modified:
12/04/2025

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the wptexturize function in WordPress before 3.7.5, 3.8.x before 3.8.5, and 3.9.x before 3.9.3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted use of shortcode brackets in a text field, as demonstrated by a comment or a post.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.30 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 3.7.4 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.8.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.8.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.8.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:3.9.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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