CVE-2010-4536 (GCVE-0-2010-4536)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-01-03 19:26 – Updated: 2024-08-07 03:51
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/42755 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/30/1 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17172/br… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://wordpress.org/news/2010/12/3-0-4-update/ x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0167 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3335 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45620 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://secunia.com/advisories/43000 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Date Public
2010-12-29 00:00
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