>> Fedora Security Update Fixes Wordpress Cross Site Scripting Issue
Title : Fedora Security Update Fixes Wordpress Cross Site Scripting Issue VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-3319 CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
Rated as : Moderate Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2008-12-03
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Fedora, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary scripting code. This issue is caused by an input validation error in the self_link function in the RSS Feed Generator (wp-includes/feed.php) for WordPress, which could cross site scripting attacks via the Host header (HTTP_HOST variable).
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