{"cve":"CVE-2009-2851","nvd":{"published":"2009-08-18T21:00:00.517","modified":"2026-06-16T23:10:21.513","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-79"],"references":["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"],"products":["wordpress:wordpress"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:54:26.868835795+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2009-2851","score":0.07905,"percentile":0.94718,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}