{
    "id": "CVE-2009-2851",
    "published": "2009-08-18 21:00:00",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-16 23:10:21",
    "cvss_score": "4.3",
    "cvss_severity": "MEDIUM",
    "cvss_version": "2.0",
    "cvss_vector": "AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N",
    "cwe": "CWE-79",
    "description": "Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the administrator interface in WordPress before 2.8.2 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a comment author URL.",
    "epss_score": "0.07905",
    "epss_percentile": "0.94530",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 1,
    "updated_at": "2026-09-29 18:17:08",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 2,
        "label": "Patch early",
        "why": "A public exploit exists."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "wordpress",
            "product": "wordpress"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [
        {
            "source": "exploit-db",
            "ref_id": "9250",
            "title": "WordPress Core 2.8.1 - 'url' Cross-Site Scripting",
            "date": "2009-07-24",
            "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9250"
        }
    ],
    "refs_list": [
        "http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492",
        "http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589",
        "http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/",
        "http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871",
        "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900",
        "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html",
        "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html",
        "http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=278492",
        "http://securitytracker.com/id?1022589",
        "http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/",
        "http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1871",
        "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/07/21/1",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=512900",
        "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01241.html",
        "https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-July/msg01253.html"
    ]
}