Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in WordPress, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.
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TITLE:
WordPress Comment Author Script Insertion Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA35946
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/35946/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in WordPress, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.
Input passed via the comment author URL is not properly sanitised
before being used. This can be exploited to insert arbitrary HTML and
script code, which is executed in a user's browser session in context
of an affected website when the malicious data is viewed.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 2.8.2.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.8.2.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/wordpress-2-8-2/
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