CVE-2008-5278 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-5278
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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).

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46882 SREASON http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4662 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA32882 Secunia Advisory: SA32966 OSVDB 50214 FEDORA CONFIRM http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/ BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498652 BID 32476

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