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Vulnerability details: VCID-y1em-tppz-7qew
Vulnerability ID VCID-y1em-tppz-7qew
Aliases CVE-2010-4536
Summary Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in KSES, as used in WordPress before 3.0.4, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to (1) the & (ampersand) character, (2) the case of an attribute name, (3) a padded entity, and (4) an entity that is not in normalized form.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 3.9
Risk 1.9
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
System Score Found at
epss 0.03881 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2010-4536
epss 0.03881 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2010-4536
epss 0.03881 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2010-4536
epss 0.03881 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2010-4536
epss 0.03881 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2010-4536
epss 0.03881 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2010-4536
epss 0.03881 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2010-4536
epss 0.03881 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2010-4536
cvssv2 4.3 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4536
Reference id Reference type URL
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/17172/branches/3.0
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053289.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-January/053293.html
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2010-4536
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4536
http://secunia.com/advisories/42755
http://secunia.com/advisories/43000
http://wordpress.org/news/2010/12/3-0-4-update/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/30/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45620
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3335
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0167
cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:wordpress:wordpress:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2010-4536 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4536
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4536
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.88187
EPSS Score 0.03881
Published At April 1, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-04-01T16:30:46.943020+00:00 Debian Oval Importer Import https://www.debian.org/security/oval/oval-definitions-bullseye.xml.bz2 38.0.0