| Vulnerability Name: | CVE-2009-2431 (CCN-51733) | ||||||||
| Assigned: | 2009-07-08 | ||||||||
| Published: | 2009-07-08 | ||||||||
| Updated: | 2018-10-10 | ||||||||
| Summary: | WordPress 2.7.1 places the username of a post's author in an HTML comment, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading the HTML source. | ||||||||
| CVSS v3 Severity: | 5.3 Medium (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N)
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| CVSS v2 Severity: | 5.0 Medium (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) 3.7 Low (Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)
3.7 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v2 Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:U/RL:OF/RC:C)
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| Vulnerability Type: | CWE-20 | ||||||||
| Vulnerability Consequences: | Obtain Information | ||||||||
| References: | Source: CCN Type: CORE-2009-0515 WordPress Privileges Unchecked in admin.php and Multiple Information Disclosures Source: MISC Type: UNKNOWN http://corelabs.coresecurity.com/index.php?action=view&type=advisory&name=WordPress_Privileges_Unchecked Source: MITRE Type: CNA CVE-2009-2431 Source: CCN Type: SECTRACK ID: 1022528 WordPress Bugs Permit Cross-Site Scripting and Information Disclosure Attacks Source: SECTRACK Type: UNKNOWN 1022528 Source: CCN Type: WordPress Web site WordPress Source: OSVDB Type: Patch 55716 Source: CCN Type: OSVDB ID: 55716 WordPress HTML Comment Poster Account Name Disclosure Source: BUGTRAQ Type: UNKNOWN 20090708 CORE-2009-01515 - WordPress Privileges Unchecked in admin.php and Multiple Information Source: VUPEN Type: Patch, Vendor Advisory ADV-2009-1833 Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN wordpress-username-information-disclosure(51733) Source: XF Type: UNKNOWN wordpress-username-information-disclosure(51733) | ||||||||
| Vulnerable Configuration: | Configuration 1: Configuration CCN 1:  Denotes that component is vulnerable | ||||||||
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