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CVE-2010-4536
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in KSES, as used in WordPress before 3.0.4, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary…
Medium4.3EPSS 3.4%
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- redhat
Description
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.
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)
- 3.4% · top 11% 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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References (10)
- 42755 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20101230 CVE request: wordpress before 3.0.4 XSS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-0306 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17172/branches/3.0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://wordpress.org/news/2010/12/3-0-4-update/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0167 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ADV-2010-3335 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 45620 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 43000 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2011-0315 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_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)
- 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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