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CVE-2008-5278
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the self_link function in in the RSS Feed Generator (wp-includes/feed.php) for WordPress…
Medium4.3EPSS 3.2%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the self_link function in in the RSS Feed Generator (wp-includes/feed.php) for WordPress before 2.6.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Host header (HTTP_HOST variable).
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)
- 3.2% · top 12% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (10)
- FEDORA-2008-10468 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 50214 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 4662 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 32476 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 32882 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20081125 WordPress XSS vulnerability in RSS Feed Generator (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 32966 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- wordpress-feed-xss(46882) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-10483 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (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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