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…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

5.2% · top 7.6% of all CVEs (2 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

• n/a
• CWE-79 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• 20141120 WordPress 3 persistent script injection (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
• DSA-3085 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20141125 Re: WordPress 4.0.1 Security Release (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0493.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://klikki.fi/adv/wordpress.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 1031243 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 71237 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• MDVSA-2014:233 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
• https://wordpress.org/news/2014/11/wordpress-4-0-1/ (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)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 13:33 UTC.