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CVE-2009-3891
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/press-this.php in WordPress before 2.8.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject…
- 3.5LowCVSS base score
- 2.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 18% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in wp-admin/press-this.php in WordPress before 2.8.6 allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the s parameter (aka the selection variable).
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 12 days later
· 12 days later
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 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 | Low3.5 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.2% · top 18% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- 37332 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20091116 Re: CVE request: Wordpress 2.8.6 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://wordpress.org/development/2009/11/wordpress-2-8-6-security-release/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 59959 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20091115 Re: CVE request: Wordpress 2.8.6 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/11119 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11119/press-this-xss-bug-11-10-2009.patch (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20091115 CVE request: Wordpress 2.8.6 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/11119/press-this.002.diff (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2009-3862 (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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