WordPress <= 2.0.0 - Cross Site Scripting - Patchstack

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WordPress <= 2.0.0 - Cross Site Scripting

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Software

WordPress

Versions

<= 2.0.0

Disclosure date

2006-02-16

CVE

CVE-2006-0733

References

CVE Mitre

Credits

Classification

Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

OWASP Top 10

A3: Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

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Details

Because of this vulnerability, attackers can inject arbitrary web script or HTML via scriptable attributes such as onfocus and onblur in the "author's website" field.

Solution

Update the WordPress to the latest available version (at least 2.0.1).

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