Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress 2.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified ve…

published 2008-05-02 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-2065

cvss: 4.3; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 2.1%; EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits: 0; none known

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in WordPress 2.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors.

Patch / fix

distros 1

wordpress Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.5.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2068

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-2068 updated 2025-11-21

wordpress: security fixes in upstream version 2.5.1 (CVE-2008-1930, CVE-2008-2068)

Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Technology feeds

WordPress rss critical rss

References

secunia.com /advisories/29965
third-party-advisory, vendor-advisory
wordpress.org /development/2008/04/wordpress-251/
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/42029
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2008-2068
NVD CVE-2008-2068

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary