CVE-2014-9031 (GCVE-0-2014-9031)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2014-11-25 23:00
Modified
2024-08-06 13:33
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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