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Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:58:16 -0500 (EST)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE requset: WordPress XSS vulnerability in RSS
 Feed Generator

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Name: CVE-2008-5278
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-5278
Reference: BUGTRAQ:20081125 WordPress XSS vulnerability in RSS Feed Generator
Reference: URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498652
Reference: CONFIRM:http://wordpress.org/development/2008/11/wordpress-265/

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the self_link function in
in the RSS Feed Generator (wp-includes/feed.php) for WordPress before
2.6.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML
via the Host header (HTTP_HOST variable).

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