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CVE-2008-5278
N/ADescription
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).
CVE Details
CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A
Published11/28/2008
Last Modified4/23/2026
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0
Affected Products
wordpress:wordpress
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-79
References
http://osvdb.org/50214(cve@mitre.org)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32882(cve@mitre.org)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32966(cve@mitre.org)
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4662(cve@mitre.org)
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498652(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32476(cve@mitre.org)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46882(cve@mitre.org)
http://osvdb.org/50214(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32882(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/32966(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4662(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498652(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32476(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46882(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00000.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg00176.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
IOC Correlations
No correlations recorded
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