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CVE-2008-5278

🗓️ 28 Nov 2008 19:00:00Reported by mitreType 
cve
 cve🔗 web.nvd.nist.gov👁 96 Views🌐 WEB

Cross-site scripting vulnerability in WordPress RSS Feed Generator

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Detection
Refs
Paths
ReporterTitlePublishedViews
Family
nessus
Tenable Nessus		WordPress < 2.6.5 'feed.php' XSS
2 Dec 200800:00
–nessus
nessus
Tenable Nessus		Fedora 8 : wordpress-2.6.5-2.fc8 (2008-10468)
3 Dec 200800:00
–nessus
nessus
Tenable Nessus		Fedora 10 : wordpress-2.6.5-2.fc10 (2008-10482)
23 Apr 200900:00
–nessus
nessus
Tenable Nessus		Fedora 9 : wordpress-2.6.5-2.fc9 (2008-10483)
3 Dec 200800:00
–nessus
nessus
Tenable Nessus		Fedora 10 : wordpress-mu-2.6.5-1.fc10 (2008-11104)
23 Apr 200900:00
–nessus
nessus
Tenable Nessus		FreeBSD : wordpress -- header rss feed script insertion vulnerability (622bc638-be27-11dd-a578-0030843d3802)
1 Dec 200800:00
–nessus
nessus
Tenable Nessus		WordPress wp-includes/feed.php self_link() Function Host Header RSS Feed XSS
2 Dec 200800:00
–nessus
freebsd
FreeBSD		wordpress -- header rss feed script insertion vulnerability
26 Nov 200800:00
–freebsd
checkpoint_advisories
Check Point Advisories		Update Protection against WordPress Host Header XSS Vulnerability
5 Dec 200800:00
–checkpoint_advisories
checkpoint_advisories
Check Point Advisories		WordPress RSS feed Generator self_link HTTP_HOST Cross-Site Scripting (CVE-2008-5278)
30 Sep 200900:00
–checkpoint_advisories
Rows per page
NVD
Node
OR
wordpresswordpressRange≤2.6.3
wordpresswordpressMatch0.6.2
wordpresswordpressMatch0.6.2beta_2
wordpresswordpressMatch0.6.2.1
wordpresswordpressMatch0.6.2.1beta_2
wordpresswordpressMatch0.7
wordpresswordpressMatch0.71
wordpresswordpressMatch0.71-gold
wordpresswordpressMatch0.72
wordpresswordpressMatch0.72beta1
wordpresswordpressMatch0.72beta2
wordpresswordpressMatch0.72rc1
wordpresswordpressMatch0.711
wordpresswordpressMatch1.0
wordpresswordpressMatch1.0-platinum
wordpresswordpressMatch1.0.1
wordpresswordpressMatch1.0.1-miles
wordpresswordpressMatch1.0.2
wordpresswordpressMatch1.0.2-blakey
wordpresswordpressMatch1.2
wordpresswordpressMatch1.2beta
wordpresswordpressMatch1.2-delta
wordpresswordpressMatch1.2-mingus
wordpresswordpressMatch1.2.1
wordpresswordpressMatch1.2.2
wordpresswordpressMatch1.3.1
wordpresswordpressMatch1.4
wordpresswordpressMatch1.5
wordpresswordpressMatch1.5-strayhorn
wordpresswordpressMatch1.5.1
wordpresswordpressMatch1.5.1.1
wordpresswordpressMatch1.5.1.2
wordpresswordpressMatch1.5.1.3
wordpresswordpressMatch1.5.2
wordpresswordpressMatch1.6
wordpresswordpressMatch2.0
wordpresswordpressMatch2.0.1
wordpresswordpressMatch2.0.2
wordpresswordpressMatch2.0.3
wordpresswordpressMatch2.0.4
wordpresswordpressMatch2.0.5
wordpresswordpressMatch2.0.6
wordpresswordpressMatch2.0.7
wordpresswordpressMatch2.0.8
wordpresswordpressMatch2.0.9
wordpresswordpressMatch2.0.10
wordpresswordpressMatch2.0.10_rc1
wordpresswordpressMatch2.0.10_rc2
wordpresswordpressMatch2.0.11
wordpresswordpressMatch2.1
wordpresswordpressMatch2.1alpha_3
wordpresswordpressMatch2.1.1
wordpresswordpressMatch2.1.2
wordpresswordpressMatch2.1.3
wordpresswordpressMatch2.1.3_rc1
wordpresswordpressMatch2.1.3_rc2
wordpresswordpressMatch2.2
wordpresswordpressMatch2.2.0
wordpresswordpressMatch2.2.1
wordpresswordpressMatch2.2.2
wordpresswordpressMatch2.2.3
wordpresswordpressMatch2.2_revision5002
wordpresswordpressMatch2.2_revision5003
wordpresswordpressMatch2.3
wordpresswordpressMatch2.3beta3
wordpresswordpressMatch2.3rc1
wordpresswordpressMatch2.3.1
wordpresswordpressMatch2.3.1rc1
wordpresswordpressMatch2.3.2
wordpresswordpressMatch2.3.3
wordpresswordpressMatch2.5
wordpresswordpressMatch2.5.1
wordpresswordpressMatch2.6
wordpresswordpressMatch2.6.1
ParameterPositionPathDescriptionCWE
Hostheaderwp-includes/feed.phpCross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the self_link function of the RSS Feed Generator (wp-includes/feed.php) in WordPress before 2.6.5, exploited via the Host header (HTTP_HOST).CWE-79
HTTP_HOSTheaderwp-includes/feed.phpCross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the self_link function of the RSS Feed Generator (wp-includes/feed.php) in WordPress before 2.6.5, exploited via the Host header (HTTP_HOST).CWE-79

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16 Jun 2026 22:59Current
5.5Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.5
CVSS 24.3
EPSS0.03233
CWE-79
cve-2008-5278cross-site scriptingxss vulnerabilitywordpressrss feed generator
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