CVE-2004-1559
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Wordpress 1.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 6.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 6Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Wordpress 1.2 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) redirect_to, text, popupurl, or popuptitle parameters to wp-login.php, (2) redirect_url parameter to admin-header.php, (3) popuptitle, popupurl, content, or post_title parameters to bookmarklet.php, (4) cat_ID parameter to categories.php, (5) s parameter to edit.php, or (6) s or mode parameter to edit-comments.php.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 6 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits6
Exploit-DB6 entries
- WordPress Core 1.2 - 'wp-login.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 24641webapps, phppublished 28 Sept 2004Verified
- WordPress Core 1.2 - 'admin-header.php?redirect_url' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 24642webapps, phppublished 28 Sept 2004Verified
- WordPress Core 1.2 - 'bookmarklet.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 24643webapps, phppublished 28 Sept 2004Verified
- WordPress Core 1.2 - 'categories.php?cat_ID' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 24644webapps, phppublished 28 Sept 2004Verified
- WordPress Core 1.2 - 'edit.php?s' Cross-Site Scripting (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 24645webapps, phppublished 28 Sept 2004Verified
- WordPress Core 1.2 - 'edit-comments.php' Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 24646webapps, phppublished 28 Sept 2004Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.5% · top 6.2% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
5
- wordpress-multiple-scripts-xss(17532) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 12683 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20040927 Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities in Wordpress 1.2 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 11268 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1011440 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2004-1553 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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