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CVE-2008-5278

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2008-11-29	wordpress -- header rss feed script insertion vulnerability

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CVE-2008-5278 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2008-5278
Phase	Assigned(20081128)

Description

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).

References

Source	Reference
BUGTRAQ	20081125 WordPress XSS vulnerability in RSS Feed Generator
CONFIRM	http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/
FEDORA	FEDORA-2008-10468
FEDORA	FEDORA-2008-10483
BID	32476
OSVDB	50214
SECUNIA	32882
SECUNIA	32966
SREASON	4662
XF	wordpress-feed-xss(46882)